Haile Quarry: Priabonian, Florida

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Archaeoceti indet. Flower 1883
1 specimen
    = Cynthiacetus maxwelli Uhen 2005
Uhen 2005
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Florida County:Alachua
Coordinates: 29.7° North, 82.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° North, 74.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Middle Tertiary - Middle Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ocala
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
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
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32918
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-07-18 13:59:02 Last modified:2008-08-19 10:01:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-07-18 13:59:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8825. G. S. Morgan. 1978. The fossil whales of Florida. The Plaster Jacket 29:1-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

12000 M. D. Uhen. 2005. A new genus and species of archaeocete whale from Mississippi. Southeastern Geology 43(3):157-172 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]