Cameron Inlet: Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
cf. Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804
cf. Megaptera sp. Gray 1846
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ziphiidae indet. Gray 1850
? Mesoplodon sp. Gervais 1850
Fitzgerald 2005
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeter sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
? Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus oxyrhynchus (Rafinesque 1810)
original and current combination Isurus oxyrinchus
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Tasmania
Coordinates: 40.0° South, 148.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.7° South, 147.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cameron Inlet
Stratigraphy comments: Middle to Upper Pliocene, post-Kalimnan, pre-Maretimo (Sutherland and Kershaw 1971)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine silty "limestone"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine silty coquina limestones and sands
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: Shallow water but open sea conditions (Sutherland and Kershaw 1971), very shallow but fully marine, possible early estuarine aspects
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51414
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-03 11:26:13 Last modified:2017-02-26 15:00:54
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-03 11:26:13
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:

23666 E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2005. Pliocene marine mammals from the Whalers Bluff Formation of Portland, Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62(1):67-89 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
48402 F. L. Sutherland and R. C. Kershaw. 1971. The Cainozoic geology of Flinders Island, Bass Strait. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 105:151-175 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]