ammonites
Point Flinders, Cape Otway, Victoria (lower Glen Aire Clay) (Oligocene of Australia)

Also known as lower Glen Aire Clay

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.9° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 56.0° S, 141.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Glen Aire Clay Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Early Oligocene age

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified claystone

• No specific lithology listed, but from lithostratigraphic name, a claystone is likely.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV). Collections PL 3019.

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh and G.W. Kendrick. 2000. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 112(1):17-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48625: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.03.2005

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