Aldinga, Blanche Point Fm (Oligocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (35.2° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.8° S, 133.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Tuit Member (Blanch Point Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Willungan Stage

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; marl

• greenish, fine, sandy, matrix-supported marl, rich in pectinids, bryozoans and

•mollusc moulds

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: SAM, South Australian Museum

Primary reference: A. M. Yates. 2009. The oldest South Australian cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Paleogene of the St Vincent Basin. Alcheringa 33(1):23-31 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170993: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 30.06.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Jetwoodsia nullarborica Tate 1879 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
? Palaeocypraea eripnides Darragh 2002 cowry