Curlewis (Miocene of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 144.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 143.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Fyansford Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• early Middle Miocene
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous marl
• calcareous clay and marl with thin bryozoal calcarenite interbeds
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 51397: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005, edited by Austin Hendy and Pete Wagner
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Taxonomic list
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| Chondrichthyes | |
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark | |
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Heterodontus cainozoicus Pledge 1985 bullhead shark | |
| Actinopteri | |
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Trachichthodes salebrosus5 Stinton 1957 | |
"Jordanicus exiguus" = Onuxodon exiguus5
"Jordanicus exiguus" = Onuxodon exiguus5 Stinton 1956 | |
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Diodon sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
| Mammalia | |
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Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale | |
| Malacostraca | |
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| Gastropoda | |
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