Merrimans Creek (Miocene of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 146.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 145.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Gippsland Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• planktonic foram zones N5-N7
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray limestone
• eutrophic, upwelling, warm
• light grey fossiliferous marly limestone and interbedded limestone and marl
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 51399: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
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Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale | |
| Chondrichthyes | |
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark | |