Blind Jims Creek (Eocene to of New Zealand)

Also known as CH/f278

Where: New Zealand (43.8° S, 176.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.4° S, 163.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Te One Member (Te Whanga Limestone Formation), Bortonian to Bortonian (42.6 - 39.1 Ma)

• Matanginui or Te One Member of the Te Whanga Limestone

•Mangaorapan to Heretaugan or Bortonian to Runangan to Whaingaroan stage

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: R. E. Fordyce and H. J. Campbell. 1990. Fossil dolphin bones from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. New Zealand Natural Sciences 17:61-65 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45668: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.11.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
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