Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 144.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: N17-18 zone, Sandringham Sandstone Member (Black Rock Sandstone Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• basal Black Rock Sandstone, Cheltenhamian to Kalimnan; late Messinian. PJW: was given as Zanclean, but it should be Messinian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; ferruginous, phosphatic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Repository: National Museum of Victoria
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 46167: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.01.2005, edited by Austin Hendy, Pete Wagner, Matthew Clapham and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca | |
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Cestracion longidens n. sp.2, Cestracion novozelandicus2, Cestracion cainozoicus n. sp.3, Cestracion cainozoicus2, Heterodontus cainozoicus5
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Notidanus jenningsi n. sp.3
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Pristis recurvidens n. sp.2
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"Oxyrhina desori" = Isurus oxyrinchus3, Isurus desori5, "Isurus retroflexus" = Isurus retroflexus5, "Oxyrhina retroflexa" = Isurus retroflexus3, Carcharodon carcharias2, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis5, Carcharodon auriculatus2, ? Lamna sp.5, Lamna crassidens2
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Mammalia | |
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Scaldicetus macgeei n. sp.
Scaldicetus macgeei n. sp. Chapman 1912 toothed whale | |
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Aves | |
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Spheniscidae indet.5, Pseudaptenodytes macrei5, ? Pseudaptenodytes minor5, Pseudaptenodytes minor n. gen. n. sp.15
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Sillago pliocaenica16 Stinton 1952 | |
Nummopalatus depressus2 Chapman and Prtichard 1907 | |
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