Where: Rio Negro, Argentina (40.3° S, 65.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° S, 60.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Gran Bajo del Gualicho Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: S. E. Caviglia and R. E. Jorge. 1980. Preaulophyseter gualichensis Gen. et sp. nov. (Cetacea; Physeteridae), en el Terciario marino de Rio Negro, Republica Argentina. Actas del Segundo Congresso Argentino de Paleontologia y Beoestratigrafia 2:363-370 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46898: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Preaulophyseter gualichensis n. gen. n. sp.
Preaulophyseter gualichensis n. gen. n. sp. Caviglia and Jorge 1980 toothed whale |