Also known as Forsyth's Bank
Where: Victoria, Australia (37.7° S, 141.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° S, 141.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Grange Burn Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
•Earliest Early Pliocene (Dickison et al. 2002)
Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, sandy marl
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51335: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.06.2005, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
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Mammalia | |
Kurrabi sp. Flannery and Archer 1984 kangaroo | |
"Cetotheriidae" indet. Brandt 1872 whale | |
Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804 rorqual | |
cf. Mesoplodon sp. Gervais 1850 beaked whale | |
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821 sperm whale
cf. Physeter sp. Linnaeus 1758 sperm whale | |
cf. Scaldicetus sp. Du Bus 1867 toothed whale | |
? Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821 dolphin | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
Heterodontus cainozoicus Pledge 1985 bullhead shark | |
Isurus escheri Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark | |
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
Edaphodon sweeti Chapman and Pritchard 1907 chimaera | |
Ischyodus cf. dolloi plownose chimaera |