Barber's Quarry: Chattian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Most likely misidentified because too old to be C. megalodon. Picture included. Crown broken and cusplets not visible (if present) on the left due to incomplete tooth. Right cusplet not visible (if present) due to cropped picture.
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia
Coordinates: 37.8° South, 140.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.6° South, 137.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:28.10000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gambier
Stratigraphy comments: Janjukian=Chattian according with Fitzgerald (2004). Author suggests this formation is Janjukian to Balcombian (or Late Oligocene-middle Miocene)
Lithology and environment
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
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:159889
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-08-11 08:35:18 Last modified:2014-10-02 13:29:43
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-08-11 08:35:18
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]

Secondary references:

13672 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]