Cadell Marl Lens: Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus (Agassiz 1835)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus aculeatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Carcharias cuspidatus (Agassiz 1843)
recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias macrotus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus desrii
Isurus retroflexus (Agassiz 1838)
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Lamna crassidens Agassiz 1838
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Lamna apiculata (Agassiz 1838)
original and current combination Otodus apiculatus
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia
Coordinates: 34.0° South, 139.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.3° South, 136.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morgan Limestone
Regional section:Murray Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Balcombian stage: 15.5-15 Ma. Carter's Unit 10.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,blue poorly lithified sandy marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Highly fossiliferous blue grey sandy marl
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: The paleontological collection of the Department of Geology, University of
Adelaide, the Geological Survey of South Australia, and several small private collections, were studied.
Metadata
Database number:159887
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-08-11 07:27:13 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-08-11 07:27:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52184. N. S. Pledge. 1967. Fossil Elasmobranch teeth of South Australia and their stratigraphic distribution. Transaction of the Royal Society of South Australia 91:135-160 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]