Gay's Limestone Quarry: Whaingaroan, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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aff. Squalodontidae indet.
Brandt 1873
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Keyes 1973 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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= Llanocetus sp.
Mitchell 1989
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Fordyce 2003 | |||||||||
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= Mysticeti indet.
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Marx and Fordyce 2015 | |||||||||
| implied by figure 2 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | North Otago |
| Coordinates: | 45.1° South, 170.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.9° South, 172.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3-4 |
| Key time interval: | Whaingaroan |
| Age range of interval: | 34.60000 - 27.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ototara | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Whaingaroan Stage. Lower Oligocene; Keyes identifies the formation as the McDonald Limestone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
| Geology comments: transgressive marine shelf, volcanic activity, warm | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | S136/f611A, Weston | ||
| Database number: | 45837 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-12-08 07:57:01 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 11:16:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-12-08 07:57:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24356. | R. E. Fordyce. 2003. Cetacean evolution and Eocene-Oligocene oceans revisited. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition 154-170 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 12184 | I. W. Keyes. 1973. Early Oligocene squalodont cetacean from Oamaru, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(4):381-390 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 55050 | F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2:140434 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |