Mitchell River at Bairnsdale: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Perciformes - Platycephalidae
Platycephalus petilus n. sp. Stinton 1957
Stinton 1957
Actinopteri - Sillaginidae
Sillago pliocaenica Stinton 1952
Stinton 1957
Actinopteri - Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
Jordanicus exiguus Stinton 1956
Stinton 1957
recombined as Onuxodon exiguus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Oxyrhina hastalis Agassiz 1838
Chapman and Pritchard 1904
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria depressa Maplestone 1900
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 37.8° South, 147.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.0° South, 146.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:174215
Authorizer:L. Liow, M. Uhen Enterer:F. Franeck, M. Uhen
Created:2015-11-04 06:32:24 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2015-11-04 06:32:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
56774. L. W. Stach. 1936. An Upper Oligocene bryozoan faunule. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 49:62-71 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]

Secondary references:

61651 F. Chapman and G. B. Pritchard. 1904. Fossil fish remains from the Tertiaries of Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 17:267-297 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]
76029 F. C. Stinton. 1957. Fish otoliths from the Tertiary strata of Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 70:81-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]