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

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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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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Title Palynostratigraphy of the Bookpurnong Beds and related Late Miocene-Early Pliocene facies in the central west Murray Basin, part 1: dinoflagellates
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f9546d68-f09a-423f-bea4-603664c2df25
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Palynostratigraphy of the Bookpurnong Beds and related Late Miocene-Early Pliocene facies in the central west Murray Basin, part 1: dinoflagellates". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/palynostratigraphy-of-the-bookpurnong-beds-and-related-late-miocene-early-pliocene-facies-in-th1