Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.1° S, 146.2° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° S, 145.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 3.6 Ma)
• orobably from Janjukian or Kalimnan beds of the Table Cape series of Tasmania (Miocene or Lower Pliocene)
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: F. Chapman. 1918. On an apparently new type of cetacean tooth from the Tertiary of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 30:149-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47124: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Scaptodon lodderi n. gen. n. sp.
Scaptodon lodderi n. gen. n. sp. Chapman 1918 toothed whale |