Dinoflagellate species diagnostic of the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Bookpurnong beds and older Murray Group correlatives. The dataset likely contains stratigraphic records from the central west Murray Basin, Australia. It is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
- Distinguish Late Miocene-Early Pliocene sediments from older formations based on diagnostic species lists.
- Correlate stratigraphic units across the central west Murray Basin using dinoflagellate assemblages.
- Study paleoenvironmental changes during Oligocene-Middle Miocene transgressions.
- Analyze the distribution of specific species like Melitasphaeridium aequabile and Tuberculodinium vancampoae.
Strengths
- Identifies specific diagnostic species for distinct geological formations.
- Focuses on a well-defined geographic region, the central west Murray Basin.
- Provides a stratigraphic method for distinguishing lithologically similar sediments.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Time Range
- Late Miocene-Early Pliocene
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 00:14:30.624585; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Central west Murray Basin, Australia