Where: Victoria, Australia (37.7° S, 141.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 140.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Muddy Creek Marl Member (Port Campbell Limestone Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Balcombian (higher Balcombian horizon)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, silty marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collected by H. Lodge
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Repository: National Museum of Victoria
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46165: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.01.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Notosepia cliftonensis n. gen. n. sp.1
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Mammalia | |
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Scaldicetus lodgei n. sp. Chapman 1917 sperm whale | |
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Actinopteri | |
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Hypomesus glaber3 Stinton 1962 | |
Merluccius fimbriatus3 Stinton 1957 | |
Trachichthodes salebrosus4 Stinton 1957 | |
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Diodon formosus3 Chapman and Pritchard 1907 | |
Sillago pliocaenica4 Stinton 1952 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca2
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Isurus sp.3, Isurus desori3, Isurus planus3, Isurus cf. paucus3, Isurus retroflexus3, Carcharodon sp.3, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis3
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon3
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