Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 138.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Dry Creek Sands Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Upper Pliocene (Yatalan).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
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 159914: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 12.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
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Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark
Lamna sp. Cuvier 1816 mackerel shark
"Carcharias contortidens" = Lamna contortidens Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark | |
Carcharhinus aculeatus requiem shark | |
Myliobatis moorabbinensis Chapman and Pritchard 1907 eagle ray |