Mitchell River at Bairnsdale (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 147.6° E: paleocoordinates 49.0° S, 146.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. W. Stach. 1936. An Upper Oligocene bryozoan faunule. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 49:62-71 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174215: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 04.11.2015, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Oxyrhina hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis1
"Oxyrhina hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis1 Agassiz 1838 white shark
Actinopteri
 Perciformes - Platycephalidae
Platycephalus petilus n. sp.2 Stinton 1957 perch-like fish
 Acanthomorphata - Sillaginidae
Sillago pliocaenica2 Stinton 1952
 Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
"Jordanicus exiguus" = Onuxodon exiguus2
"Jordanicus exiguus" = Onuxodon exiguus2 Stinton 1956
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria depressa Maplestone 1900