Red Hill, Shelford (Oligocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 144.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.6° S, 141.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Janjukian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Chapman and F. A. Cudmore. 1924. New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group. Royal Society of Victoria 36(2):107-162 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204313: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
"Carcharias incidens" = Carcharias (Prionodon) incidens
"Carcharias incidens" = Carcharias (Prionodon) incidens Eastman 1904 blue shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
"Odontaspis elegans" = Striatolamia macrota
"Odontaspis elegans" = Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark