Also known as upper Browns Creek Formation
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.4° E: paleocoordinates 58.2° S, 141.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Browns Creek Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Late Eocene, Aldingan Stage; dark gritty clay, above greensand
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, pebbly claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collection methods: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV). Collections PL 3013 and 3014.
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2000. Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(1):17-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48577: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Eutinochilus otwayensis" = Teinostoma (Eutinochilus)
"Eutinochilus otwayensis" = Teinostoma (Eutinochilus) snail | |
"Collonia variabilis" = Tricolia (Hiloa) variabilis
"Collonia variabilis" = Tricolia (Hiloa) variabilis Pease 1860 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Dosina multilamellata venus clam | |
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata" = Caryocorbula pixidata
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata" = Caryocorbula pixidata Tate 1887 clam | |
Salaputium communis clam | |
Tucetona lenticularis Tate 1886 clam | |
Barbatia (Barbatia) limatella Tate 1886 clam
Arca pseudonavicularis Tate 1886 ark | |
Notogrammatodon cainozoicus Tate 1886 clam | |
Limopsis (Limopsis) multiradiata Tate 1886 clam
Limopsis (Limopsis) chapmani Singleton 1932 clam | |
Spondylus gaderopoides McCoy 1876 scallop | |
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop | |
Nuculana (Saccella) chapmani Finlay 1924 pointed nut clam | |
Nucula taitei nut clam |