PL3029 - Upper Bed, Table Cape: Aquitanian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Prosqualodon davidis n. sp.
Flynn 1923
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Flynn 1923 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Diprotodontia
- Wynyardiidae
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Wynyardia bassiana
Spencer 1901
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Aplin 1985 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Heterodontiformes
- Heterodontidae
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Cestracion cainozoicus
Chapman and Pritchard 1904
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Cestracion coleridgensis
Chapman 1918
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Heterodontus cainozoicus
Pledge 1985
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Lamna apiculata
(Agassiz 1838)
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Otodus apiculatus | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus retroflexus
(Agassiz 1838)
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Odontaspis cuspidata
(Agassiz 1843)
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
| recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus | ||||||||||
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Odontaspis rutoti
(Winkler 1878)
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
| recombined as Palaeohypotodus rutoti | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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Carcharias taurus
Rafinesque 1810
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis recurvidens
Chapman and Cudmore 1924
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Acrodontidae
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Strophodus eocenicus
Tate 1894
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Odontaspidida
- Isuridae
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Isurus minutus
(Agassiz 1843)
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Oxyrhina minuta | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Chimaeriformes
- Callorhynchidae
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Ischyodus mortoni
Chapman and Pritchard 1907
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Aturiidae
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Aturia australis
(McCoy 1876)
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Glaessner 1955 | |||||||||
| synonym of Aturia cubaensis | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior
(Pritchard 1896)
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Darragh 2002 | |||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Goneplacidae
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Ommatocarcinus corioensis
(Creswell 1886)
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Jenkins 1975 | |||||||||
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Ostraciontidae
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Aracana kershawi n. sp.
Chapman and Cudmore 1924
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Chapman and Cudmore 1924 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Tasmania |
| Coordinates: | 41.0° South, 145.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.3° South, 144.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Aquitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary - Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Aquitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fossil Bluff Sandstone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Longfordian, planktonic foram zone N4, Foraminifera indicate both the Freestone Cove Sandstone and Fossil Bluff Formations were deposited during earliest Miocene time (Foram Zone N5/Faunal Unit 6 of Carter 1958) although a Late Oligocene (Faunal Unit 5 of Carter 1958) date remains possible for the former (Quilty 1972, Quilty & Teller 1994). Volcanics capping the section are not suitable for potassium-argon dating (L. Sutherland, pers. comm.) but indirect independent age control is provided by a section at Maude near Geelong, Victoria, where a 21.4 Ma basalt occurs between two limestones which preserve essentially the same marine fauna as the basal glauconitic sandstone unit in the Fossil Bluff Formation (Quilty 1966, Abele & Page 1974). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic lithified calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fine siltstones and shales, and glauconitic calcareous sandstone | |
| Environment: | shoreface |
| Geology comments: Foraminifera data indicate the glauconitic sandstones near the base of the Fossil Bluff Formation accumulated in water depths of between 9-18 m and the upper section of calcareous sandstones, siltstones and calcarenites in water depths of up to 30 m. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Fossil Bluff, Table Cape, Wynyard | ||
| Database number: | 28307 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, A. Hendy, P. Wagner | Enterer: | M. Uhen, A. Hendy, P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-02-06 10:17:54 | Last modified: | 2019-08-09 12:54:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-06 10:17:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26982. | H. H. Scott. 1914. Notes on a fossil whale from Wynyard, Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1913:167-172 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 7799 | 5% 22280 | K. A. Aplin. 1985. Wynyardia bassiana Spencer, 1901: The Wynyard marsupial. In P. V. Rich (ed.), Kadimakara: Extinct Vertebrates of Australia 219-224 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner] |
| 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] | |
| 18301 | T. A. Darragh. 2002. A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 59(2):355-392 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] | |
| 13672 | 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] | |
| 12185 | T. T. Flynn. 1923. A whale of bygone days. Australian Museum Magazine 1:266-272 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 12140 | T. T. Flynn. 1948. Description of Prosqualodon davidi Flynn, a fossil cetacean from Tasmania. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 26:153-195 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 10902 | E. D. Gill. 1954. The validity of the lower Tertiary possum, Wynyardia bassiana. Australian Journal of Science 17(1):69-69 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 13527 | M. F. Glaessner. 1955. Pelagic fossils (Aturia, penguins, whales) from the Tertiary of South Australia. Records of the South Australia Museum 353-371 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 31105 | R. J. F. Jenkins. 1975. The fossil crab Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Cresswell) and a review of related Australiasian species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 36:33-62 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham] |