Hunruni (Eocene to of New Zealand)

Where: Canterbury, New Zealand (43.0° S, 172.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° S, 167.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ashley Mudstone Formation, Kaiatan to Kaiatan (37.2 - 34.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, pyritic, calcareous mudstone

• slightly glauconitic, pyritic, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Fordyce and N. Hiller. 2014. An associated skeleton of juvenile Late Eocene basilosaurid archaeocete (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from New Zealand. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts 131 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 162502: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867 whale