Hunruni: Kaiatan - Runangan, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
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
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Kaiatan - Runangan
Age range of interval:37.20000 - 34.30000 m.y. ago
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]