Also known as Portland
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.4° S, 141.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° S, 141.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: N18-N19 foram zone, Whaler's Bluff Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
•early Pliocene
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. The fossil record of cetaceans (Mammalia) on the Australian continent. The Fossil Collector 72:5-32 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51328: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon1
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Ziphiidae indet. Gray 1850 beaked whale | |
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821 sperm whale | |
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Balaenidae indet. Gray 1821 right whale | |
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