Where: South Australia, Australia (35.3° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 135.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Munno Para Clay Member (Port Willunga Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Batesfordian-Balcombian (Lower Miocene), Carter's Units 9-10
Environment/lithology: marine
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 159910: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 12.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharias contortidens" = Lamna contortidens
"Carcharias contortidens" = Lamna contortidens Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark | |
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus Agassiz 1843 sand tiger shark | |
Carchariolamna heroni mackerel shark | |
Carcharhinus collatus requiem shark | |
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