Warun Ponds Quarry: Chattian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Granobrissoide australiae
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McNamara et al. 2008 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Ziphius (Dolichodon) geelongensis n. sp.
McCoy 1882
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McCoy 1882 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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= Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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Fordyce 1981 | |||||||||
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Dolichodon geelongensis
McCoy 1882
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McCoy 1882 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| synonym of Mesoplodon | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Squalodontidae
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Parasqualodon wilkinsoni
(McCoy 1867)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= cf. Squalodontidae indet.
Brandt 1873
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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"Cetotheriidae" indet.
(Brandt 1872)
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eomysticetidae
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Eomysticetidae indet.
Sanders and Barnes 2002
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Marx et al. 2019 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
| NMV P7452 7453 171618 48781 E 197861 48783 A 197862 48781 A 171617 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Mammalodontidae
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Mammalodontidae indet.
Mitchell 1989
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Marx et al. 2019 | 45 specimens | ||||||||
| NMV P165551 26253 7462 7458 7457 7456 7463 7459 7460 7455 7461 197864 179001 197863 197859 197857 197855 232876 197841 197842 197833 231751 48784 A 48784 B 48781 D 5530 5531 48855 48856 48786 48783 I 48783 F 48781 C 48783 C 48781 F 48783 K 48783 G 48783 E 48783 B 48783 L 197858 48807 B 48787 197854 197840 | ||||||||||
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Mammalodon sp.
Pritchard 1939
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalodon colliveri
Pritchard 1939
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Fordyce 1982 | |||||||||
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= cf. Mammalodon colliveri
Pritchard 1939
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Ceteolites leggei n. sp.
McCoy 1879
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McCoy 1879 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Cetacea | ||||||||||
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Cetotolites baileyi n. sp.
McCoy 1883
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McCoy 1883 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Cetacea | ||||||||||
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Ceteolites nelsoni n. sp.
McCoy 1879
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McCoy 1879 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Cetacea | ||||||||||
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Ceteolites pricei n. sp.
McCoy 1879
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McCoy 1879 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Cetacea | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Diprotodontidae
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Diprotodontidae indet.
Gill 1872
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Myliobatis prenticei n. sp.
Chapman and Cudmore 1924
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Odontaspidida
- Isuridae
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Oxyrhina minuta
Agassiz 1843
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo sp.
Müller and Henle 1837
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Odontaspis attenuata
(Davis 1888)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon angustidens
(Agassiz 1835)
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
| recombined as Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens | ||||||||||
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Lamna apiculata
(Agassiz 1838)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Otodus apiculatus | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharoides totuserratus
Ameghino 1901
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Carcharoides tenuidens
Chapman 1913
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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? Lamna cattica
(Philippi 1846)
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
| recombined as Carcharoides catticus | ||||||||||
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Carcharodon robustus
Davis 1888
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
| synonym of Carcharodon auriculatus | ||||||||||
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Lamna sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Lamna bronni
(Agassiz 1843)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
| recombined as Lamna bronnii | ||||||||||
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Odontaspis contortidens
(Agassiz 1843)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
| recombined as Lamna contortidens | ||||||||||
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Isurus sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Oxyrhina desori
(Agassiz 1843)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
| synonym of Isurus oxyrinchus | ||||||||||
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Isurus retroflexus
(Agassiz 1838)
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Isurus desori
Sismonda 1849
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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Carcharias macrotus
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Carcharias (Prionodon) acutus
(Agassiz 1843)
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Carcharias acutus | ||||||||||
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Carcharias taurus
Rafinesque 1810
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Squalomorphii
- Hexanchidae
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Notorhynchus cepedianus
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 38.2° South, 144.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.7° South, 142.2° 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 | ||
| Age estimate: | 25.7 to 23.9 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Jan Juc | Member: | Warun Ponds Limestone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Tertiary (Janjukian), laterally equivalent to the Point Addis Limestone
Biostratigraphic evidence and foraminiferal 87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios [150-152], indicate and age of 25.7–23.9 Ma for the holotype [102]. The base of the Point Addis Limestone has been dated to 24.2 Ma (+1.3, -1.2 Ma) [138], whereas the age of its top is the same as for the Jan Juc Marl and constrained by the contact with the overlying Puebla Formation (23.9 Ma) [151]. (Marx & Fordyce, 2015) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bryozoal calcarenite with interbedded marls | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Blue Circle Southern Cement Ltd.; Waurn Ponds | ||
| Database number: | 46166 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Uhen, A. Doyle |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-06 14:54:30 | Last modified: | 2020-09-10 09:59:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-06 14:54:30 |
| 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:
| 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] | |
| 12688 | R. E. Fordyce. 1981. Taxanomic Status of the Victorian Fossil Whale, Ziphius (Dolichodon) geelongensis McCoy 1882. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 93(1):157-157 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 12683 | R. E. Fordyce. 1982. A review of Autralian fossil Cetacea. 43:43-56 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 72000 | F. G. Marx, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and R. E. Fordyce. 2019. Like phoenix from the ashes: How modern baleen whales arose from a fossil “dark age”. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(2):231-238 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 55050 | F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2:140434 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 15489 | F. McCoy. 1879. Decade VI. Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria 1-42 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 30413 | F. McCoy. 1882. Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria, Decade VII 1-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham] | |
| 30397 | F. McCoy. 1883. Annual Address. The Southern Science Record 3:139-144 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 39476 | K. J. McNamara, G. M. Philip, and P. D. Kruse. 2008. Tertiary brissid echinoids of southern Australia. Alcheringa 10(1):55-84 [J. Alroy/A. Doyle/P. Wagner] |