Main Site, CY Creek (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.9° S, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 92.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gearle Siltstone Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Nannofossil zone CC10a

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the WAM

Primary reference: M. Siversson, J. Lindgren, M. G. Newbrey, P. Cederström, and T. D. Cook. 2015. Cenomanian–Campanian (Late Cretaceous) mid-palaeolatitude sharks of Cretalamna appendiculata type. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60:339-384 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215765: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Kenolamna gunsoni Siverson 1996 mackerel shark
Cretalamna catoxodon n. sp. Siversson et al. 2015 mackerel shark
Part of C. appendiculata in Siverson, 1996