Wongulla (Miocene of Australia)
Where: South Australia, Australia (34.7° S, 139.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° S, 136.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Upper Member (Mannum Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; yellow mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
• high mesotrophic, shallow, Fe redox, destructive and constructive diagenic condictions
• yellow-orange calcarenite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51406: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2005
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Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale | |