Also known as Dry Creek
Where: Victoria, Australia (34.8° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 138.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Dry Creek Formation, Piacenzian to Piacenzian (3.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• late Pliocene
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal sandstone
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 51405: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Balaenidae indet. Gray 1821 right whale | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark | |
Gastropoda | |
"Umbilia cera" = Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata, Notocypraea eryma
"Umbilia cera" = Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata Iredale 1916 cowry
Notocypraea eryma Cotton 1947 cowry |