MacBean's Pound: Burdigalian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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"Cetotheriidae" indet.
(Brandt 1872)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
Coordinates: | 34.4° South, 139.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 45.2° South, 136.8° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: bryozoal calcarenite | |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: high mesotrophic, shallow, Fe redox, destructive and constructive diagenic condictions |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 51408 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-06-03 10:30:52 | Last modified: | 2021-03-29 11:56:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-03 10:30:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13672. | E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
76127 | B. McGowran, Q. Li, N. S. Pledge and R. Schmidt. 2009. Neogene fossils in the Murravian Gulf (Western Murray Basin) and their environmental and chronological signficance. In J. T. Jennings (ed.), Natural History of the Riverlands and Murraylands Continued 178-205 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |