Also known as Tailem Bend
Where: South Australia, Australia (35.3° S, 139.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.8° S, 135.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Buccleuch Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Upper Buccleuch Formation
Environment/lithology: fine-grained, glauconitic, green limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: N. S. Pledge. 1994. Cetacean fossils from the Lower Oligocene of South Australia. Records of the South Australia Musuem 27(2):117-123 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45823: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.12.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Graphularia sp. sea pen | |
Mammalia | |
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Scapanorhynchus maslinensis goblin shark | |
"Lamna cf. apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus
"Lamna cf. apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark | |
Echinoidea | |
Scutellinoides patella Tate 1891 sand dollar | |
Schizaster (Schizaster) aff. halli McNamara and Philip 1980 heart urchin | |
Corystus dysasteroides sea urchin | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Waldheimia cf. insolita" = Aliquantula insolita, "Magasella woodsiana" = Magadinella woodsiana
"Waldheimia cf. insolita" = Aliquantula insolita Tate 1880
"Magasella woodsiana" = Magadinella woodsiana Tate 1880 | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |