Walker Wells: Priabonian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Celleporidae
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? Cellepora sp.
Linnaeus 1767
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Chondrichthyes
- Heterodontiformes
- Heterodontidae
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Heterodontus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Odontaspis sp.
Agassiz 1838
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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? Isurus sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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? Lamna sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Striatolamia macrota
(Agassiz 1838)
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original and current combination Otodus macrotus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
Coordinates: | 35.4° South, 138.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 55.5° South, 133.7° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
Database number: | 205781 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2019-10-21 16:35:47 | Last modified: | 2019-10-25 18:32:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-10-21 16:35:47 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
61723. | N. S. Pledge, A. R. Milnes, R. P. Bourman and N. F. Alley. 2015. Fossil shark teeth from upland Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia: evidence for previously unknown Tertiary marine sediments. Mesa Journal 76(1):67-73 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] |