Orphanage Hill (Miocene of Australia)
Also known as Geelong
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.1° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° S, 142.8° E)
When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Balcombian
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Chapman and G. B. Pritchard. 1904. Fossil fish remains from the Tertiaries of Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 17:267-297 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 204306: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Chondrichthyes | |
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca Agassiz 1843 bullhead shark | |
Acanthias geelongensis n. sp.
Acanthias geelongensis n. sp. Chapman and Pritchard 1904 dogfish shark | |