Clarksville: Priabonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Zeuglodon sp.
Owen 1839
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Buckley 1846 | ||||||
| synonym of Basilosaurus | |||||||
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Basilosaurus kochii n. sp.
Carus 1847
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| recombined as Zygorhiza kochii | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Clarke |
| Coordinates: | 31.7° North, 87.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.2° North, 80.1° 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 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 84754 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-11-10 11:08:06 | Last modified: | 2019-12-02 18:16:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-11-10 11:08:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11978. | L. Reichenbach. 1847. Systematisches. Resultate geologischer, anatomischer und zoologischer untersuchungen über das unter den Namen Hydrarchos von Dr. A. C. Koch zuerst nach Europa gebrachte und in Dresden augestelte grofse fossile Skelett 15 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 29255 | S. B. Buckley. 1846. On the Zeuglodon remains of Alabama. American Journal of Science 2(4):125-129 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 56098 | P. D. Gingerich. 2015. New partial skeleton and relative brain size in the Late Eocene archaeocete Zygorhiza kochii (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Pachuta Marl of Alabama, with a note on contemporaneous Pontogeneus brachyspondylus. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 32(10):161-188 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |