Where: Victoria, Australia (37.9° S, 144.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.4° S, 142.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Maude Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• lower Maude Formation
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
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 51395: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Mammalodontidae indet. Mitchell 1989 whale | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Isurus sp., "Isurus desorii" = Isurus oxyrinchus
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
"Isurus desorii" = Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark | |
Heterodontus cainozoicus Pledge 1985 bullhead shark |