Curlewis (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 144.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 143.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Fyansford Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• early Middle Miocene

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous marl

• calcareous clay and marl with thin bryozoal calcarenite interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

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 51397: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005, edited by Austin Hendy and Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Zoila mulderi3 Tate 1892 cowry
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Ommatocarcinus corioensis4 Creswell 1886 crab
Chondrichthyes
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Cestracion longidens1 Chapman and Cudmore 1924 bullhead shark
Heterodontus cainozoicus Pledge 1985 bullhead shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
Actinopteri
 Beryciformes -
 Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
"Jordanicus exiguus" = Onuxodon exiguus5
"Jordanicus exiguus" = Onuxodon exiguus5 Stinton 1956
 Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
Diodon sp. Linnaeus 1758