Batesford Quarry (Miocene to of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.1° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° S, 142.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Batesford Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Batesfordian
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone
• calcareous sand and gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. The fossil record of cetaceans (Mammalia) on the Australian continent. The Fossil Collector 72:5-32 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51330: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Sphyrna prisca" = Cestracion prisca1
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Lamnidae indet.2, Isurus sp.2, "Isurus oxyrhynchus" = Isurus oxyrinchus2, "Isurus cf. oxyrhynchus" = Isurus oxyrinchus2, Isurus planus2, Isurus cf. paucus2, Isurus desori2, Isurus retroflexus2, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis2, Carcharoides totuserratus1
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon2
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Mammalia | |
Squalodontidae indet. Brandt 1873 toothed whale | |
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821 sperm whale | |
Cetotheriidae indet. Brandt 1872 whale | |
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Actinopteri | |
Labrodon sp.2 Gervais 1857 |