Strathalbyn (Miocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 139.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° S, 136.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mannum Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Sublittoral equivalents of Mannum Formation. Carter’s Faunal Units 6 and 7. Longfordian: From 23.03 To 16.5 Ma

•Murray Basin

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. S. Pledge. 1967. Fossil Elasmobranch teeth of South Australia and their stratigraphic distribution. Transaction of the Royal Society of South Australia 91:135-160 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159888: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 11.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The paleontological collection of the Department of Geology, University of Adelaide, the Geological Survey of South Australia, and several small private collections, were studied.
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
"Isurus desorii" = Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
Carcharoides totuserratus Ameghino 1901 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus Agassiz 1843 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon, "Lamna apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
"Lamna apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Notidanus sp. Cuvier 1817 cow shark
indet. (fragmental)