Tortachilla Limestone (basal grit): Late/Upper Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Carcharias cuspidatus (Agassiz 1843)
recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Lamna apiculata (Agassiz 1838)
original and current combination Otodus apiculatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias macrotus
Carcharias maslinensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia
Coordinates: 35.2° South, 138.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.3° South, 133.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tortachilla Limestone
Regional section:St Vincent Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Aldingan (Upper Eocene), Carter's Unit 1.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: No specific lithologic data is provided.
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
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic 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:159895
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Modifier:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-08-11 16:11:33 Last modified:2014-08-11 16:48:23
Access level:the public Released:2014-08-11 16:11:33
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]