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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867 whale |