Cruise 36, USNS Eltanin, Station 25 (Neogene of South Pacific)

Where: South Pacific (54.1° S, 150.1° E: paleocoordinates 62.1° S, 151.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Neogene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. C. Whitmore and J. A. Kaltenbach. 2008. Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:181-269 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77519: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
aff. Mesoplodon sp. Gervais 1850 beaked whale
photographed on the ocean floor