PBDB Collection

Beaumaris: Messinian, Australia

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	? Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825	Fitzgerald 2004
	= Carettochelyidae indet.	Rule et al. 2021
	NMV P161476, nuchal fragment
Reptilia - Odontopterygiformes - Pelagornithidae

	Pelagornis sp. Lartet 1857	Fitzgerald et al. 2012	4 specimens
Reptilia - Diomedeidae

	Diomedea thyridata Wilkinson 1969	Fitzgerald 2004
Reptilia - Spheniscidae

	Spheniscidae indet. Bonaparte 1831	Fitzgerald 2004

	Pseudaptenodytes macrei	Fitzgerald 2004

	? Pseudaptenodytes minor Simpson 1970	Fitzgerald 2004
	nomen dubium belonging to Pseudaptenodytes

	Pseudaptenodytes minor n. gen., n. sp. Simpson 1970	Simpson 1970	1 specimen
	nomen dubium belonging to Pseudaptenodytes
Mammalia - Carnivora

	Pinnipedia indet. (Illiger 1811)	Rule et al. 2020	1 specimen
	NMV P251642
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

	Monachinae indet. Trouessart 1897	Fordyce and Flannery 1983

	Phocidae indet. (Gray 1821)	Fitzgerald 2004
	NMV P41759
	= Monachini indet. Trouessart 1904	Rule et al. 2021
	sp. 1 & 2
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

	Ziphiidae indet. Gray 1850	Fitzgerald 2004
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

	Steno cudmorei n. sp. Chapman 1917	Chapman 1917	1 specimen
	= Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821	Fitzgerald 2004
	= "Steno" cudmorei Chapman 1917	Fitzgerald 2005
	nomen dubium belonging to Delphinidae
Mammalia - Cetacea

	Scaldicetus macgeei n. sp. Chapman 1912		1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae

	Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821	Fitzgerald 2004

	Physetodon baileyi n. sp. McCoy 1879	McCoy 1879
	nomen dubium belonging to Hoplocetinae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

	"Cetotheriidae" indet. (Brandt 1872)	Fitzgerald 2004

	? Neobalaenidae indet. Miller 1923	Fitzgerald 2012	1 specimen
	spelled with current rank as Neobalaeninae

	Caperea sp. Gray 1864	Marx et al. 2018	1 specimen
	NMV P233333
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

	Balaenidae indet. (Gray 1821)	Fitzgerald 2004
	original and current combination Balanadae

	cf. Balaena sp. Linnaeus 1758	Fitzgerald 2004
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

	Megaptera sp. Gray 1846	Fitzgerald 2004

	Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804	Fitzgerald 2004
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae

	Zygomaturus gilli Stirton 1967	Fitzgerald 2004

	Kolopsis cf. torus Woodburne 1967	Fitzgerald 2004
Actinopteri - Labriformes - Labridae

	Nummopalatus depressus (Chapman and Prtichard 1907)	Chapman and Cudmore 1924
Actinopteri - Perciformes - Lactariidae

	Lactarius tumulatus Stinton 1957	Fitzgerald 2004
Actinopteri - Sillaginidae

	Sillago pliocaenica Stinton 1952	Stinton 1957
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae

	Edaphodon sweeti Chapman and Pritchard 1907	Fitzgerald 2004

	Edaphodon mirabilis Chapman and Cudmore 1924	Fitzgerald 2004

	Edaphodon cf. mirabilis Chapman and Cudmore 1924	Fitzgerald 2004

	Edaphodon mirabilis n. sp. Chapman and Cudmore 1924	Chapman and Cudmore 1924
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae

	Ischyodus cf. dolloi	Fitzgerald 2004
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

	Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816	Fitzgerald 2004

	Myliobatis affinis n. sp. Chapman and Cudmore 1924	Chapman and Cudmore 1924
Chondrichthyes - Odontaspidida - Isuridae

	Oxyrhina eocaena	Chapman and Pritchard 1904

	Isurus minutus (Agassiz 1843)	Chapman and Cudmore 1924
	original and current combination Oxyrhina minuta
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae

	Pristis recurvidens n. sp. Chapman and Cudmore 1924	Chapman and Cudmore 1924
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae

	Galeocerdo aduncus (Agassiz 1835)	Fitzgerald 2004
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

	Megascyliorhinus sp. Cappetta and Ward 1977	Fitzgerald 2004
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae

	Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816	Fitzgerald 2004

	Carcharhinus cf. brachyurus (Gunther 1870)	Fitzgerald 2004

	Carcharias (Prionodon) aculeata	Chapman and Cudmore 1924
	replaced by Prionace
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae

	Odontaspis cuspidata (Agassiz 1843)	Chapman and Pritchard 1904
	recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus

	Odontaspis attenuata (Davis 1888)	Chapman and Pritchard 1904

	Odontaspis incurva (Davis 1888)	Chapman and Pritchard 1904
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae

	Parotodus benedenii (Le Hon 1871)	Fitzgerald 2004

	Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)	Fitzgerald 2004
	recombined as Otodus megalodon
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae

	Carcharodon auriculatus (Blainville 1818)	Chapman and Cudmore 1924

	Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)	Fitzgerald 2004
	recombined as Carcharodon hastalis

	Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)	Chapman and Cudmore 1924

	? Lamna sp. Cuvier 1816	Fitzgerald 2004

	Lamna crassidens Agassiz 1838	Chapman and Cudmore 1924

	Oxyrhina desori (Agassiz 1843)	Chapman and Pritchard 1904
	synonym of Isurus oxyrinchus

	Isurus retroflexus (Agassiz 1838)	Fitzgerald 2004

	Oxyrhina retroflexa Agassiz 1838	Chapman and Pritchard 1904
	recombined as Isurus retroflexus

	Isurus desori Sismonda 1849	Fitzgerald 2004
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae

	Carcharias collata Eastman 1904	Chapman and Cudmore 1924

	Carcharias victoriae n. sp. Chapman and Cudmore 1924	Chapman and Cudmore 1924

	Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810	Fitzgerald 2004
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Hexanchidae

	Notidanus jenningsi n. sp. Chapman and Pritchard 1904	Chapman and Pritchard 1904
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Pristiophoridae

	Pristiophorus lanceolatus (Davis 1888)	Fitzgerald 2004
	recombined as Pristiophorus lanceolata
Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae

	Heterodontus cainozoicus Pledge 1985	Fitzgerald 2004

	Cestracion cainozoicus n. sp. Chapman and Pritchard 1904	Chapman and Pritchard 1904

	Cestracion cainozoicus Chapman and Pritchard 1904	Chapman and Cudmore 1924

	Cestracion novozelandicus Chapman 1918	Chapman and Cudmore 1924

	Cestracion longidens n. sp. Chapman and Cudmore 1924	Chapman and Cudmore 1924
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae

	Strophodus eocenicus Tate 1894	Chapman and Cudmore 1924
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Aturiidae

	Aturia coxi Miller 1947	Beu 1973
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

	Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata (Iredale 1916)	Darragh 2002
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae

	Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Creswell 1886)	Jenkins 1975
see common names

Geography

Country:	Australia	State/province:	Victoria
Coordinates:	38.0° South, 145.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	42.1° South, 144.3° East
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
Stage:	Messinian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Messinian	Zone:	N17-18
Age range of interval:	7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Black Rock Sandstone	Member:	Sandringham Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: basal Black Rock Sandstone, Cheltenhamian to Kalimnan; late Messinian. PJW: was given as Zanclean, but it should be Messinian.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	ferruginous,phosphatic sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: ferruginous and phosphatic nodules in a matrix of quartz sand and gravel
Environment:	shoreface
Geology comments: shallow shelf to shoreface, upward shoaling over time, backshore deposits present

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	poor
Disassociated minor elements:	all

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museum of Victoria

Metadata

Database number:	46167
Authorizer:	M. Uhen, M. Clapham, E. Vlachos, P. Wagner, A. Hendy	Enterer:	M. Uhen, P. Wagner, A. Hendy, M. Clapham, E. Vlachos
Modifier:	M. Uhen	Research group:	marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:	2005-01-06 14:57:35	Last modified:	2020-08-19 16:04:13
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-01-06 14:57:35
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

13630.

F. Chapman. 1912. On the occurrence of Scaldicetus in Victoria. Department of Mines (Geological Survey [Australia]) 1912:236-238 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

59708		A. G. Beu. 1973. Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the uppermost Miocene of Australia and New Zealand. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:297-308 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
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]
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]
18301		T. A. Darragh. 2002. A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 59(2):355-392 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]
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]
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72342		E. M. G. Fitzgerald, D. Hastie, J. Buckeridge and P. Scofield. 2013. Earliest seals from Australia reveal colonization of Southern Ocean by archaic Monachinae (Phocidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts 2013:127-128 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
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23820		R. E. Fordyce and T. F. Flannery. 1983. Fossil phocid seals from the late Tertiary of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 95(1-2):99-100 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
40400		D. I. Hastie and E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2011. Biogeographic significance of a basal monachine seal (Carnivora: Phocidae) from the Late Miocene of Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia 2011, CAVEPS Perth 2011,13th conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaentology and Systematics, April 27th–30th: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record 2011(9):44 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
31105		R. J. F. Jenkins. 1975. The fossil crab Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Cresswell) and a review of related Australiasian species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 36:33-62 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]
66230		F. G. Marx, T. Park, E. M. G. Fitzgerald and A. R. Evans. 2018. A Miocene pygmy right whale fossil from Australia. PeerJ 6:e5025 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15489		F. McCoy. 1879. Decade VI. Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria 1-42 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
79163		J. P. Rule, J. W. Adams, and E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2021. Early monk seals (Monachinae: Monachini) from the late Miocene–early Pliocene of Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19(6):441-459 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
73475		J. P. Rule, J. W. Adaws, and E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2020. Colonization of the ancient southern oceans by small-sized Phocidae: new evidence from Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
78839		J. P. Rule, L. Kool, W. M. G. Parker and E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2021. Turtles all the way down: Neogene pig-nosed turtle fossil from southern Australia reveals cryptic freshwater turtle invasions and extinctions. Papers in Palaeontology 1-7 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
25175		G. G. Simpson. 1970. Miocene penguins from Victoria, Australia, and Chubut, Argentina. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 31:17-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
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