Castle Cove: Chattian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Squalodon wilkinsoni n. sp. McCoy 1867
Pledge and Rothausen 1977 1 specimen
    = Parasqualodon n. gen. wilkinsoni McCoy 1867
Hall 1911
    = Prosqualodon sp. Lydekker 1894
Fitzgerald 2004
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Odontaspis contortidens (Agassiz 1843)
Chapman and Pritchard 1904
recombined as Lamna contortidens
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.8° South, 143.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.4° South, 141.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calder River Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,phosphatic sandy "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandy bryozoal calcarenite with a thin discontinuous basal layer of phosphatic nodules and quartz pebbles
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:AWE, Aire Coast
Database number:45794
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-02 09:04:05 Last modified:2019-09-12 17:31:01
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-02 09:04:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14949. F. McCoy. 1867. On the occurrence of the geunus Squalodon in the Tertiary strata of Victoria. Geological Magazine 4(34):10-10 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

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]
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]
32898 R. J. Foster and G. M. Philip. 1978. Tertiary holasteroid echinoids from Australia and New Zealand. Palaeontology 21:791-822 [L. Villier/L. Villier]
12133 T. S. Hall. 1911. On the systematic position of the species of Squalodon and Zeuglodon described from Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23(2):257-265 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12135 N. S. Pledge and K. Rothausen. 1977. Metasqualodon harwoodi (Sanger, 1881)-A redescription. Records of the South Australian Museum 17(17):285-297 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]