Where: Western Australia, Australia (23.1° S, 114.2° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° S, 87.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gearle Siltstone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "middle to late Albian" based on shark fauna and the formation is "late early Albian... very close to its base"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; argillaceous siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. Siverson, K. Brimmell, A. Baynes in 1994, 1995; reposited in the WAM

Collection methods: salvage, surface (float),

• Western Australia Museum collection

•recovered from sediments that now "make up the walls of the dam" and were excavated during its construction

•"processing a 5 kg bulk sample did not yield any microscopic teeth"

Primary reference: M. Siverson. 1997. Sharks from the mid-Cretaceous Gearle Siltstone, Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):453-465 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90688: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.08.2009

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