Roydon: Priabonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Balaenoptera juddi n. sp. Seeley 1881
Seeley 1881 1 specimen
    = Zygorhiza juddi Seeley 1881
Kellogg 1936
nomen dubium belonging to Basilosauridae
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Hampshire
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 1.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.4° North, 2.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Headon Hill
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Headon Beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:56937
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-29 08:11:28 Last modified:2018-12-04 16:14:08
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-29 08:11:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

67491. J. W. Judd. 1881. On the occurrence of the remains of a cetacean in the lower Oligocene strata of the Hampshire Basin. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37:708-709 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

8335 R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15349 H. G. Seeley. 1881. Note on the caudal vertebra of a cetacean discovered by Prof. Jud in the Brockenhurst beds, indicative of a new type allied to Balaenoptera (Balaenoptera juddi). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37:709-709 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]