Cedar Reach Rock: Priabonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosaurus cetoides
(Owen 1839)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Escambia |
| Coordinates: | 31.1° North, 87.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.5° North, 79.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower - Middle Tertiary - Early/Lower - Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene |
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Priabonian - Early/Lower Priabonian | ||
| Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: no description given | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 28986 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-03-09 12:10:41 | Last modified: | 2019-09-19 20:52:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-03-09 12:10:41 |
| 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] |