Wood's Flat, Murray River: Langhian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis recurvidens
Chapman and Cudmore 1924
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | ||||||
Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Nautilidae
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Eutrephoceras altifrons
(Chapman 1915)
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original and current combination Nautilus altifrons | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
Coordinates: | 34.2° South, 139.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° South, 137.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Morgan Limestone, now considered to be a subgroup; formation not known. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: South Australian Museum or University of Adelaide (AUGD) |
Metadata
Database number: | 171289 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham, M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Clapham, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2015-07-05 14:08:13 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-07-05 14:08:13 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
55713. | B. McGowran. 1959. Tertiary nautiloids (Eutrephoceras and Cimomia) from South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 33:435-448 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
61719 | F. Chapman and F. A. Cudmore. 1924. New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group. Royal Society of Victoria 36(2):107-162 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] |