Also known as Fossil Bluff, Table Cape, Wynyard
Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.0° S, 145.7° E: paleocoordinates 53.3° S, 144.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Bluff Sandstone Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• Early Longfordian, planktonic foram zone N4, Foraminifera indicate both the Freestone Cove Sandstone and Fossil Bluff Formations were deposited during earliest Miocene time (Foram Zone N5/Faunal Unit 6 of Carter 1958) although a Late Oligocene (Faunal Unit 5 of Carter 1958) date remains possible for the former (Quilty 1972, Quilty & Teller 1994). Volcanics capping the section are not suitable for potassium-argon dating (L. Sutherland, pers. comm.) but indirect independent age control is provided by a section at Maude near Geelong, Victoria, where a 21.4 Ma basalt occurs between two limestones which preserve essentially the same marine fauna as the basal glauconitic sandstone unit in the Fossil Bluff Formation (Quilty 1966, Abele & Page 1974).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, glauconitic, calcareous sandstone and lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: H. H. Scott. 1914. Notes on a fossil whale from Wynyard, Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1913:167-172 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28307: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.02.2003, edited by Austin Hendy and Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867 toothed whale | |
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"Lamna apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus2
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"Isurus minutus" = Oxyrhina minuta2
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Cephalopoda | |
"Aturia australis" = Aturia cubaensis6
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Gastropoda | |
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Malacostraca | |
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Ostraciontidae | |
Aracana kershawi n. sp.2
Aracana kershawi n. sp.2 Chapman and Cudmore 1924 |