Baie de Magenta, Noumea (Holocene of New Caledonia)

Where: New Caledonia (22.3° S, 166.5° E: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 166.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Borsa. 2006. Marine mammal strandings in the New Caledonia region, Southwest Pacific. Comptes Rendus Biologies 329(4):277-288 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83457: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus 1758 sperm whale
 Cetacea - Kogiidae
Kogia breviceps Blainville 1838 pygmy sperm whale
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Tursiops sp. Gervais 1855 dolphin
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Dugong dugon Illiger 1811 dugong