Jemmys Point: Zanclean, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Mesoplodon longirostris
(Cuvier 1824)
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1 specimen | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Megaptera sp.
Gray 1846
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Fitzgerald 2005 | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Fitzgerald 2004 | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Squalomorphii
- Hexanchidae
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Notorhynchus cepedianus
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Fitzgerald 2004 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria | County: | Tambo |
Coordinates: | 37.9° South, 148.0° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.6° South, 147.6° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Altitude: | 80 feet |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Jemmys Point | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: late Kalinmnan, planktonic foram zones N18-N19 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandy claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: sandy clay with shell beds | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Lakes Entrance | ||
Database number: | 46068 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-12-28 14:39:15 | Last modified: | 2006-01-30 13:44:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-12-28 14:39:15 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12281. | M. F. Glaessner. 1947. A fossil beaked whale from Lakes Entrance, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 58:25-34 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
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] | |
23666 | E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2005. Pliocene marine mammals from the Whalers Bluff Formation of Portland, Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62(1):67-89 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |