Portland Bay beach: Tortonian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Sphenisciformes indet.
(Sharpe 1891)
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2 specimens | ||||||
Actinopteri
- Labriformes
- Labridae
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Labrodon confertidens
Chapman and Pritchard 1907
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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] |