Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 52.8° S, 142.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jan Juc Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Jan Juc Fm, which regionally conformably overlies the Angahook Fm. Stratigraphy is discussed by Singleton (1968) and Abele et al. (1976). AGE: The age of the assemblage is Late Oligocene-Early Miocene and is type Janjukuan. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, argillaceous siltstone and glauconitic sandstone
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. 2002. A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 59(2):355-392 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176296: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.02.2016, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Acanthias geelongensis Chapman and Pritchard 1904 dogfish shark | |
Cestracion cainozoicus Chapman and Pritchard 1904 bullhead shark | |
Gastropoda | |
Umbilia (Umbilia) prosila n. sp.
Umbilia (Umbilia) prosila n. sp. Darragh 2002 cowry |