Baie de Gadji (Holocene of New Caledonia)

Also known as Isle of Pines

Where: New Caledonia (22.6° S, 167.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 167.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Borsa. 2006. Marine mammal strandings in the New Caledonia region, Southwest Pacific. Comptes Rendus Biologies 329(4):277-288 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83454: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Tursiops aduncus Ehrenberg 1832 dolphin
Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray 1846 short-finned pilot whale
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Arctocephalus forsteri Lesson 1828 fur seal