Merrimans Creek: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus hastalis
(Agassiz 1838)
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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] |