Marion No. 2 Bore: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus collatus
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
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Carchariolamna heroni
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Carcharias cuspidatus
(Agassiz 1843)
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| recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharias contortidens
(Agassiz 1843)
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| recombined as Lamna contortidens | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Squalomorphii
- Hexanchidae
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Notidanus sp.
Cuvier 1817
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| indet. (fragment) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
| Coordinates: | 35.3° South, 138.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.0° South, 135.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Port Willunga | Member: | Munno Para Clay | ||
| Regional section: | St Vincent | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Batesfordian-Balcombian (Lower Miocene), Carter's Units 9-10 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: bryozoal limestone containing chert nodules | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| 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: | 159910 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Pimiento |
| Modifier: | C. Pimiento | ||
| Created: | 2014-08-12 12:06:27 | Last modified: | 2014-08-12 12:09:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-12 12:06:27 |
| 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] |