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Abstract
Warne, M.T., June 2012. Record of the deep marine Clinocythereis australis Ayress and Swanson, 1991 (Ostracoda) from the upper Miocene Tambo River Formation, Gippsland Basin, Australia: Palaeo-oceanographic and biostratigraphic implications. Alcheringa, 151–156. ISSN 0311-5518.
Fossils of the deep marine ostracod, Clinocythereis australis Ayress & Swanson, Citation1991 occur within the Tambo River Formation, Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia and record an approximately 6 Ma phase of late Miocene coastal ocean upwelling within this region. The presence of deep marine faunal elements within late Miocene Mitchellian strata is in contrast to the absence of such faunal elements in latest Miocene Cheltenhamian and younger marine strata of the Bass Strait hinterland. The absence of deep marine faunal elements in post-Mitchellian onshore strata is due to the Kosciusko Uplift, which transformed Bass Strait into a wholly shallow seaway placing adjacent coastal regions beyond the reach of ocean upwelling influences.
Mark T. Warne [[email protected]], School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University (Burwood Campus), 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia. Received 26.3.2011; revised 20.5.2011; accepted 30.5.2011.
Acknowledgements
The late Dr K.G. McKenzie provided ostracod materials from the type section of the Tambo River Formation at Swan Reach, Gippsland. Museum Victoria is thanked for access to sediment samples of the Tambo River Formation exposed at Rose Hill along the Mitchell River, near Bairnsdale, Gippsland. This work was undertaken with support from the Environmental Sustainability Faculty of Science andTechnology Research Cluster (FRC) at Deakin University.