ABSTRACT
The fossil fauna of the St. Vincent Basin is both abundant and diverse. Most of the past research on the palaeoenvironments of the basin used fossils such as Foraminifera (e.g. Lindsay 1969, McGowran & Beecroft 1986), palynology/palaeobotany (Chapman 1935, Christophel & Greenwood 1987, Scriven 1993), ostracods (McKenzie 1979, 1987, McKenzie et al. 1991, Majoran 1993, 1995, 1996a, 1996b) and molluscs (Buonaiuto 1979). Dinoflagellates (Harris 1985), echinoids (McNamara 1987), trace fossils (Glaessner & Pledge 1985) and vertebrates (Jenkins 1974) have also been studied in some detail.
