Where: South Australia, Australia (37.8° S, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 59.9° S, 138.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Night Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• Chattian according with Fitzgerald (2004)
Environment/lithology: coastal
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: The paleontological collection of the Department of Geology, University of Adelaide, the Geological Survey of South Australia, and several small private collections, were studied
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 159894: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 11.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
"Carcharias contortidens" = Lamna contortidens, "Isurus desorii" = Isurus oxyrinchus
"Carcharias contortidens" = Lamna contortidens Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
"Isurus desorii" = Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark | |
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus Agassiz 1843 sand tiger shark | |
"Lamna obliqua" = Otodus obliquus
"Lamna obliqua" = Otodus obliquus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark | |
Carcharias macrotus, Carcharias maslinensis, Carcharias rutoti, Carcharias dubius, Carcharias ensiculatus
Carcharias macrotus sand shark
Carcharias maslinensis sand shark
Carcharias rutoti sand shark
Carcharias dubius sand shark
Carcharias ensiculatus sand shark | |
Galeocerdo sp. Müller and Henle 1837 tiger shark | |
"Notidanus serratissimus" = Notorhynchus serratissimus
"Notidanus serratissimus" = Notorhynchus serratissimus Agassiz 1843 sevengill shark |