Split Point: Chattian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias macrotus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharoides totuserratus Ameghino 1901
Mammalia - Cetacea
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.5° South, 144.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.0° South, 142.0° 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow sandy "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: yellow sandy bryozoal calcarenite
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Aireys Inlet
Database number:51389
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-03 06:34:17 Last modified:2006-01-30 11:50:31
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-03 06:34:17
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]