Where: Victoria, Australia (38.4° S, 142.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° S, 141.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Port Campbell Limestone Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Port Campbell Limeston sensu stricto
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, yellow mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51385: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Scaldicetus sp. Du Bus 1867 toothed whale |