Split Point (Oligocene of Australia)

Also known as Aireys Inlet

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.5° S, 144.1° E: paleocoordinates 53.0° S, 142.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Point Addis Limestone Member, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• yellow sandy bryozoal calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 51389: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet.
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharoides totuserratus
Carcharoides totuserratus Ameghino 1901 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias macrotus