Kawarren (Oligocene of Australia)
Also known as Old Alkemade's Quarry
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.5° S, 143.6° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 51.3° S, 150.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Clifton Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, yellow limestone
• inner to mid shelf, wave-dominated
• friable pale yellow limestone interbedded with harder crystalline bands
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51383: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005
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Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharoides sp. Ameghino 1901 mackerel shark
Carcharoides totuserratus Ameghino 1901 mackerel shark
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
Isurus desori Sismonda 1849 mackerel shark | |
"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens
"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark |