Also known as Assemblage 5; FL 19
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 55.9° S, 141.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Glen Aire Clay Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Glen Aire Clay. Outcrop is not good and stratigraphical relationships of the outcrop are not clear owing to slipping and covering sediment. Glen Aire Clay regionally overlies the Castle Cove Limestone, which in turn overlies the Browns Creek Clay. AGE: The age of the assemblage is probably Early Oligocene (Abele et al. 19876), though previous writers (Darragh 1987) have tended to regard the lower Glen Aire Clay as latest Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower Glen Aire Clay.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably multiple collectors from same locality, including the author, and combination with existing museum collections. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 1985. Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia. Alcheringa 9:83-116 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71236: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Triploca ligata snail
Acteon scrobiculatus snail | |
Heliacus (Torinista) darraghi Garrard 1978 snail | |
Munditia lamellosa snail | |
Astraea hudsoniana snail
Collonista otwayensis snail | |
Cylichnania aratula snail | |
Pareora stylacris turret shell
Spirocolpus aldingae turret shell | |
Sassia oligostira triton shell | |
Columbarium calcaratum snail | |
Semitriton dennanti snail
Oamaruia ptycjotropis snail | |
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa, Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides, Notovoluta variculifera, Notopeplum primarugatum, Athleta (Ternivoluta) curvirostata
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa volute
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides Tate 1888 volute
Notovoluta variculifera volute
Notopeplum primarugatum volute | |
Pterochelus otwayensis murex snail
Murexsul prionotus murex snail
Pteropurpura bifrons murex snail
Pteropurpura calva murex snail | |
Marginella kitsoni margin shell | |
Maudrillia secta snail | |
Austrolithes incompositus Tate 1888 snail | |
Comitas cudmorei snail | |
Borsonia protexta snail
Cordieria protensa snail | |
Guraleus eocenicus snail | |
Turrinosyrinx denticulata turrid
Parasyngenochilus angustior Long 1981 turrid | |
Conorbis otwayensis cone shell
Marshallaria otwayensis cone shell | |
Splendrillia hughesi snail | |
Apiotoma bassi snail | |
Ellatrivia torquayensis Schilder 1935 snail
Semitrivia pompholugota Tate 1890 snail
Archierato pyrulata Tate 1890 snail | |
Willungia cf. ovulatella Tate 1890 snail | |
Proterato australis Tate 1878 snail | |
Tanea wintlei moon snail
Friginatica aldingensis Tate 1893 moon snail | |
Atlanta fossilis snail | |
Sirius cf. subquadratus snail | |
Margineulima danae snail | |
Notacirsa lampra Tate 1890 wentletrap | |
Bivalvia | |
Ennucula tenisoni Pritchard 1896 nut clam | |
Saccella chapmani pointed nut clam | |
Sarepta planiuscula Tate 1886 clam | |
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop | |
Limaria polynema file clam
Lima bassi file clam | |
Notostrea lubra oyster | |
Limopsis chapmani Singleton 1932 clam | |
Cosa praenuntia clam
Limarca angustifrons Tate 1886 clam | |
Eotrigonia eocenica clam | |
Myadora lamellata Tate 1887 clam | |
Fossacallista tatei Cossmann 1920 venus clam | |
Salaputium communis clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) subfissura tusk shell |