Hurunui River mouth (Eocene to of New Zealand)

Also known as Napanape Beach

Where: North Canterbury, New Zealand (42.9° S, 173.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° S, 164.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ashley Mudstone Formation, Bortonian to Bortonian (43.0 - 36.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Hiller. 2011. A new archaeocete (Mammalia: Cetacea) from North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics Programme Abstracts 13:97 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124710: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Dorudontinae indet. Miller 1923 whale