Dry Creek Sands (sharks): Late/Upper Pliocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatis moorabbinensis
Chapman and Pritchard 1907
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus aculeatus
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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Carcharias macrotus
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Synonym of Striatolamia macrota | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Lamna sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Carcharias contortidens
(Agassiz 1843)
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recombined as Lamna contortidens | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
Coordinates: | 34.9° South, 138.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.0° South, 138.0° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Dry Creek Sands | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Pliocene (Yatalan). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: The paleontological collection of the Department of Geology, University of Adelaide, the Geological Survey of South Australia, and several small private collections, were studied. |
Metadata
Database number: | 159914 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Pimiento |
Created: | 2014-08-12 12:13:54 | Last modified: | 2014-08-12 12:13:54 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-12 12:13:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
52184. | N. S. Pledge. 1967. Fossil Elasmobranch teeth of South Australia and their stratigraphic distribution. Transaction of the Royal Society of South Australia 91:135-160 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento] |