Curlewis (Miocene of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 144.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 143.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Fyansford Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• early Middle Miocene
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous marl
• calcareous clay and marl with thin bryozoal calcarenite interbeds
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51397: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005, edited by Austin Hendy