Merrimans Creek: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.3° South, 146.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.5° South, 145.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gippsland Limestone
Stratigraphy comments: planktonic foram zones N5-N7
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: light grey fossiliferous marly limestone and interbedded limestone and marl
Environment:offshore indet.
Geology comments: eutrophic, upwelling, warm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51399
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-03 09:37:58 Last modified:2017-02-26 15:25:34
Access level:database members Released:2005-12-03 09:37:58
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]