Port Willunga cliffs (Oligocene of Australia)
Where: South Australia, Australia (35.3° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.9° S, 133.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Ruwarung Member (Port Willunga Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Rupelian
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone
• high energy, wave-dominated, shallow
• bryozoal limestone containing chert nodules
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: N. S. Pledge. 1994. Cetacean fossils from the Lower Oligocene of South Australia. Records of the South Australia Musuem 27(2):117-123 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45824: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.12.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale | |
Willungacetus aldingensis n. gen. n. sp.
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