Blanche Point Marl (Eocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (30.1° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° S, 132.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Blanche Point Marl Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Aldingan, Carter's Unit 2.

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

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 159896: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 11.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon sp., "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis, Lamna vincenti, "Carcharias contortidens" = Lamna contortidens
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
Lamna vincenti Winkler 1878 mackerel shark
"Carcharias contortidens" = Lamna contortidens Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Lamna apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus
"Lamna apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias macrotus, Carcharias rutoti, Carcharias maslinensis
Carcharias rutoti sand shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus Agassiz 1843 sand tiger shark
 Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis cudmorei
Pristis cudmorei Chapman 1917 sawfish
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp.
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
"Notidanus serratissimus" = Notorhynchus serratissimus
"Notidanus serratissimus" = Notorhynchus serratissimus Agassiz 1843 sevengill shark