Grange Burn: Burdigalian - Langhian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Oplegnathidae
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Oplegnathus manni n. sp.
Chapman and Cudmore 1924
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
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cf. Archaeosimos sp.
Prideaux 2004
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Prideaux 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Macropodidae
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Macropodidae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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Woods 1962 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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Balaenidae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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Fitzgerald 2005 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Balanadae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Plesiocetus dyticus
Cabrera 1926
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Bearlin 1985 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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= Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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Fordyce 1984 | |||||||||
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= Pelocetus sp.
Kellogg 1965
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Bearlin 1988 | |||||||||
| new species | ||||||||||
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= "Cetotheriidae" indet.
Brandt 1872
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Piper et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| perhaps Diorocetus or Parietobalaena | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Phocidae
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Phocidae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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Fitzgerald 2005 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Phocadae | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Odontaspidida
- Isuridae
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Oxyrhina eocaena
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
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Oxyrhina minuta
Agassiz 1843
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus hastalis
(Agassiz 1838)
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
| recombined as Carcharodon hastalis | ||||||||||
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Oxyrhina desori
(Agassiz 1843)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
| synonym of Isurus oxyrinchus | ||||||||||
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Lamna compressa
Agassiz 1843
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Odontaspis incurva
(Davis 1888)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
| recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
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Lamna apiculata
(Agassiz 1838)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Otodus apiculatus | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 37.7° South, 141.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.0° South, 139.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian - Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Port Campbell Limestone | Member: | Bochara Limestone | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Middle Miocene, N8-9, Batesfordian |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown,yellow "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bryozoal calcarenite | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Arch Site | ||
| Database number: | 46164 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Uhen, M. Nelson, A. Garcia Selles |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-06 14:36:00 | Last modified: | 2012-01-26 10:01:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-06 14:36:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12318. | F. Chapman. 1917. New or little-known Victorian fossils in the National Museum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 30(1):32-43 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 34545 | R. K. Bearlin. 1985. The morphology and systematics of Neogene mysticetes (baleen whales) from Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Record 9:11-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 34547 | R. K. Bearlin. 1988. The morphology and systematics of Neogene Mysticeti from australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 31:257 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 61719 | F. Chapman and F. A. Cudmore. 1924. New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group. Royal Society of Victoria 36(2):107-162 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 12682 | R. E. Fordyce. 1984. Preliminary report on cetacean bones from Chatham Rise (New Zealand). Geologisches Jahrbuch (D 65)117-120 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 23682 | K. J. Piper, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and T. H. Rich. 2006. Mesozoic to early Quaternary mammal faunas of Victoria, South-East Australia. Palaeontology 49(6):1237-1262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 36547 | G. J. Prideaux. 2004. Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. In S. W. Awramik, A. Barnosky, J. A. Doyle, M. L. Droser, P. M. Sadler (eds.), UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146:1-623 [G. Prideaux/G. Gully/T. Liebrecht] | |
| 61019 | J. T. Woods. 1962. Fossil marsupials and Cainozoic continental stratigraphy in Australia; a review. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 14(2):41-49 [M. Uhen/M. Nelson] |