Baie de Chateaubriand, Lifou (Holocene of French Polynesia)

Where: Loyalty Islands, French Polynesia (20.9° S, 167.3° E: paleocoordinates 20.9° S, 167.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 83487: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus 1758 sperm whale