Princetown Beach: Chattian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.7° South, 143.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.3° South, 140.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Clifton
Stratigraphy comments: nodule bed within the Clifton Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic sandy "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: phosphate and limonite nodules within limestone-sandy limestone matrix
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51388
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-03 06:24:37 Last modified:2021-03-23 14:45:50
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-03 06:24:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]