MacBean's Pound: Burdigalian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
"Cetotheriidae" indet. (Brandt 1872)
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mannum Member:Upper
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]