Browns Creek, Johanna, Victoria (upper Browns Creek Formation) (Eocene of Australia)

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

• Gritty dark clay

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

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for mollusca
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Tornidae
"Eutinochilus otwayensis" = Teinostoma (Eutinochilus)
"Eutinochilus otwayensis" = Teinostoma (Eutinochilus) snail
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae
"Collonia variabilis" = Tricolia (Hiloa) variabilis
"Collonia variabilis" = Tricolia (Hiloa) variabilis Pease 1860 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata" = Caryocorbula pixidata
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata" = Caryocorbula pixidata Tate 1887 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona lenticularis Tate 1886 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus gaderopoides McCoy 1876 scallop
 Pectinida - Dimyidae
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Saccella) chapmani Finlay 1924 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula taitei nut clam