Bells Beach: Chattian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Mammalodontidae
Mammalodontidae indet. Mitchell 1989
2 specimens
NMV P199587 NMV P254053
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon angustidens (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.4° South, 144.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.9° South, 142.2° 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:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Point Addis Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: yellow bryozoal calcarenite
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51392
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-03 06:49:00 Last modified:2006-01-30 11:51:59
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-03 06:49:00
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]