Allansford: Middle Miocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821
similar to Scaldicetus
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
cf. Cetotheriidae indet. (Brandt 1872)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.4° South, 142.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.2° South, 140.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51329
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-02 18:18:22 Last modified:2019-09-19 21:13:43
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-02 18:18:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12558. E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. The fossil record of cetaceans (Mammalia) on the Australian continent. The Fossil Collector 72:5-32 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]