Portland Bay beach: Tortonian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Sphenisciformes indet. (Sharpe 1891)
2 specimens
Actinopteri - Labriformes - Labridae
Labrodon confertidens Chapman and Pritchard 1907
Chapman and Cudmore 1924
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.3° South, 141.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.6° South, 140.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Port Campbell Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray "limestone"
Secondary lithology:white "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: lower light grey unit of the Port Campbell Limestone; upper white unit of the same formation.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:178455
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-05-02 11:49:29 Last modified:2016-05-02 11:49:29
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-02 11:49:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59033. T. Park, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, S. J. Gallagher, E. Tomkins, and T. Allan. 2016. New Miocene fossils and the history of penguins in Australia. PLoS One 11(4):e0153915 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

61719 F. Chapman and F. A. Cudmore. 1924. New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group. Royal Society of Victoria 36(2):107-162 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]