List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | Canterbury | County: | Hurunui |
Coordinates: | 43.0° South, 172.8° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 50.5° South, 167.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Ashley Mudstone |
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | glauconitic,pyritic calcareous mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: slightly glauconitic, pyritic, calcareous mudstone | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 162502 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2014-09-26 15:26:13 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-09-26 15:26:13 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
52924. | R. E. Fordyce and N. Hiller. 2014. An associated skeleton of juvenile Late Eocene basilosaurid archaeocete (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from New Zealand. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts 131 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |