Blanchetown: Burdigalian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Nummulitidae
Operculina victoriensis
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
? Squalodontidae indet. Brandt 1873
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia
Coordinates: 34.5° South, 139.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.2° South, 136.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mannum Member:Upper
Stratigraphy comments: minimum age of the upper Mannum Formation is Longfordian, based on the presence of Operculina victoriensis at the base of this unit. The Upper Member of the Mannum Formation is overall no younger than Early Miocene.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine-grained calcarenite
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51407
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-03 10:28:26 Last modified:2020-03-11 13:12:53
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-03 10:28:26
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]

Secondary references:

71858 N. S. Pledge. 2020. A squalodontid whale from the early Miocene near Blanchetown, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]