Kawarren: Chattian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810
Isurus desori Sismonda 1849
Carcharoides sp. Ameghino 1901
Carcharoides totuserratus Ameghino 1901
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon angustidens (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
Mammalia - Cetacea
? Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
new family
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.5° South, 143.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.1° South, 141.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:28.10000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Clifton
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow poorly lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: friable pale yellow limestone interbedded with harder crystalline bands
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: inner to mid shelf, wave-dominated
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Old Alkemade's Quarry
Database number:51383
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-03 05:47:38 Last modified:2017-02-26 15:06:55
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-03 05:47:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]