Barber's Quarry: Chattian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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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] |