ammonites
Cape Otway (Oligocene to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.9° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.3° S, 141.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oligocene to Oligocene (33.9 - 5.3 Ma)

• Dennant said Eocene, but an Oligocene-Miocene age is more likely

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Dennant. 1902. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 5. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26:255-264 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122382: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2011