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