Where: South Australia, Australia (31.0° S, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° S, 136.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Namba Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Yanda Fauna, near the contact between the two unnamed members of the Namba Formation

•The accepted age for the Namba formation has varied from late Oligocene-early Miocene. Woodburne et al. 1994 suggested a late Oligocene age for the correlated faunas of Zone A in the Etadunna Formation. Martin 1990 also suggested that an early Miocene age was unlikely based on pollen data. Megirian et al. 2010 also used a late Oligocene age of 28-24Ma for the Namba Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by M. Archer, T.H. Rich

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 51413: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005

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