Hawkes Bay: Priabonian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
? Dorudontinae indet. (Miller 1923)
invalid subgroup of Basilosauridae
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis incurva (Davis 1888)
Chapman 1918
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:South Island
Coordinates: 39.5° South, 176.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.5° South, 175.3° 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:87886
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-27 07:21:38 Last modified:2019-09-02 13:33:49
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-27 07:21:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29544. R. E. Fordyce and C. D. Roberts. 2009. Fossil Pinnipedia and Cetacea. In D. P. Gordon (ed.), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity 553 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

61709 A. G. Beu, R. A. Henderson, and C. S. Nelson. 1972. Notes on the taphonomy and paleoecology of New Zealand tertiary spatangoida. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 15(2):275-286 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]
19495 F. Chapman. 1918. Descriptions and Revisions of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Fish-remains of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Branch Palaeontological Bulletin 7:1-41 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]