Palynostratigraphy of the Bookpurnong Beds and related Late Miocene-Early Pliocene facies in the central west Murray Basin, part 1: dinoflagellates  

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Macphail, M.K. | Kellett, J.R.

Abstract

Dinoflagellates offer a reliable method for distinguishing the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Bookpurnong beds from lithologically similar marginal marine sediments, such as the Winnambool Formation deposited during Oligocene-Middle Miocene transgressions. Species largely or wholly restricted to the Bookpurnong beds and correlatives in the central west Murray Basin include Melitasphaeridium aequabile, M . choanophorum, Tectatodinium psilatum , and (frequent) Tuberculodinium vancampoae. Species diagnostic of the older Murray Group correlatives, such as the Geera Clay and Winnambool Formation, include Apteodinium australiense and Pentadinium laticinctum.

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1993-01-01T00:00:00

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AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics 14:4:371-382

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[-38.0, -32.0, 138.0, 147.0]

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