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
•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 | |
Jetwoodsia nullarborica Tate 1879 cerith snail | |
? Palaeocypraea eripnides Darragh 2002 cowry |