Overland Corner: Middle Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
| Coordinates: | 34.2° South, 140.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.1° South, 138.1° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Glenforslan | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ?Glenforslan Formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bryozoal calcarenite | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: seagrass-influenced, warm-temperate, low mesotrophic, rapid sedimentation | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 51411 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-03 10:55:42 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 15:26:40 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2005-12-03 10:55:42 |
| 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] |