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