ammonites
Adelaide Bore, Kent Town - Tortachilla Limestone (Eocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 133.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortachilla Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from Tortachilla Limestone, which overlies the Maslin Sands and is overlain by the Blanche Point Fm in the East St Vincent Basin. AGE: Late Eocene (Priabonian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001) - local stage=Aldingan. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation, possibly multiple and mixed bed, hence assigned to a "formation" scale.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic, green, argillaceous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Glauconitic clayey green sands. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified on the basis of figured specimens and facies description (limestone)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.

Primary reference: R. Tate. 1886. The lamellibranchs of the Older Tertiary of Australia (part 1). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 8:96-158 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71407: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.04.2007

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