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Pebble Point , Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia
Lat/Long (Decimal) | -38.732,143.185 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | Victoria, Australia |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Pebble Point (AM cephalopod collection) | Ward P. D., Flannery D. T. O., et al (2016) | Pebble Point | The Pebble Point Formation is relatively thin at approximately 15 m thick, and is conformably overlain by the Dilwyn Formation, a finer clastic unit. The Dilwyn Formation has yielded foraminifera faunas of latest Paleocene to Early Eocene, thus bracketing the Pebble Point Formation as Paleocene in age as the Pebble Point Formation sits with angular unconformity on Cretaceous strata. | sandstone | 59.2 - 56 Ma Paleocene |
Pebble Point (Tate Museum collection) | Ward P. D., Flannery D. T. O., et al (2016) | Pebble Point | The Pebble Point Formation is relatively thin at approximately 15 m thick, and is conformably overlain by the Dilwyn Formation, a finer clastic unit. The Dilwyn Formation has yielded foraminifera faunas of latest Paleocene to Early Eocene, thus bracketing the Pebble Point Formation as Paleocene in age as the Pebble Point Formation sits with angular unconformity on Cretaceous strata. | sandstone | 59.2 - 56 Ma Paleocene |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Aturoidea distans species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Hercoglossidae : Aturoidea : Aturoidea distans | 59.2 - 56 Ma Paleocene |
Nautilus praepompilius species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nautilida : Nautilidae : Nautilus : Nautilus praepompilius | 59.2 - 56 Ma Paleocene |
References
Ward P. D., Flannery D. T. O., et al (2016) The Paleocene cephalopod fauna from Pebble Point, Victoria (Australia) – fulcrum between two Eras, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74, 391-402 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!