ammonites

Port Phillip: Middle Miocene, Australia

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.2° South, 144.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° South, 143.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.97 - 11.61 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Balcombian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:92292
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-05 04:54:32 Last modified:2009-11-05 05:04:06
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-11-05 04:54:32
Reference information
Primary reference:
31101 S. D. Cairns. 2004. The azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3):259-329 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

26424 S. D. Cairns. 1997. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 591:1-55 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
26420 S. D. Cairns. 2001. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 615:1-75 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]