Horace Brown farm: Priabonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosaurus cetoides
(Owen 1839)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Choctaw |
Coordinates: | 31.7° North, 88.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.2° North, 80.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | coastal 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: | 204941 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2019-09-27 11:32:30 | Last modified: | 2019-12-02 18:23:06 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-09-27 11:32:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
8335. | R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |