Dry Creek Sands (sharks): Late/Upper Pliocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis moorabbinensis Chapman and Pritchard 1907
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus aculeatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias macrotus
Synonym of Striatolamia macrota
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
Lamna sp. Cuvier 1816
Carcharias contortidens (Agassiz 1843)
recombined as Lamna contortidens
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia
Coordinates: 34.9° South, 138.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.0° South, 138.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dry Creek Sands
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Pliocene (Yatalan).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
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:159914
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Pimiento
Created:2014-08-12 12:13:54 Last modified:2014-08-12 12:13:54
Access level:the public Released:2014-08-12 12:13:54
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]