Cadell Marl Lens (Miocene to of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.0° S, 139.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 136.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Morgan Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Balcombian stage: 15.5-15 Ma. Carter's Unit 10.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray, blue, sandy marl

• Highly fossiliferous blue grey sandy marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The paleontological collection of the Department of Geology, University of

•Adelaide, the Geological Survey of South Australia, and several small private collections, were studied.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159887: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 11.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus
"Carcharias cuspidatus" = Araloselachus cuspidatus Agassiz 1843 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Lamna crassidens Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark
Isurus desrii mackerel shark
Isurus retroflexus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Lamna apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus, "Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Lamna apiculata" = Otodus apiculatus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark