Beaumaris (Miocene to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 145.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° S, 144.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Black Rock Sandstone Formation, Messinian to Messinian (7.2 - 3.6 Ma)

• Cheltenhamian to Kalimnan (Abele et al., 1988; Dickinson et al., 2002; Gill, 1957; Holdgate and Gallagher, 2003; Mallett, 1977).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Pimiento and Balk. 2013. Measured specimens from this locality in the BMNH, London, UK.

Primary reference: E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154112: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 27.01.2014, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Lovenia woodsi3 heart urchin
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis moorabbinensis3 Chapman and Pritchard 1907 eagle ray
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Asteracanthus sp.3 Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Cestracion cainozoicus3 Chapman and Pritchard 1904 bullhead shark
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Notidanus sp.3 Cuvier 1817 cow shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo davisi3 Chapman and Pritchard 1904 tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus retroflexa3, Isurus crassa3, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis3, Lamna sp.3, "Odontaspis contortidens" = Lamna contortidens3
Isurus retroflexa3 mackerel shark
Isurus crassa3 mackerel shark
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis3 Agassiz 1838 white shark
Lamna sp.3 Cuvier 1816 mackerel shark
"Odontaspis contortidens" = Lamna contortidens3 Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon2
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon2 Agassiz 1835 megalodon
Also studied in Pimiento and Balk
 Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Edaphodon sp.3 Buckland 1838 chimaera
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ziphiidae indet.3 Gray 1850 beaked whale
 Cetacea -
Scaldicetus sp.3 Du Bus 1867 toothed whale
Physetodon sp.3 McCoy 1879 toothed whale
Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
cf. Pacifichelys sp.1 Parham and Pyenson 2010 sea turtle
Aves
 Aves -
Aves indet.3 bird
bird
 Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae
Spheniscidae indet.3 Bonaparte 1831 penguin
penguin
Actinopteri
 Labriformes - Labridae
Labrodon sp.3 Gervais 1857
 Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
Diodon formosus3 Chapman and Pritchard 1907