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
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Echinoidea | |
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Isurus retroflexa3, Isurus crassa3, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis3, Lamna sp.3, "Odontaspis contortidens" = Lamna contortidens3
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon2
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon2 Agassiz 1835 megalodon Also studied in Pimiento and Balk
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Mammalia | |
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Actinopteri | |
Labrodon sp.3 Gervais 1857 | |
Diodon formosus3 Chapman and Pritchard 1907 |