Tangoio (Holocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (39.3° S, 177.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° S, 177.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• remains of recent animals, not fossils

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. N. Baker and A. L. van Helden. 1999. New records of beaked whales, genus Mesoplodon, from New Zealand (Cetacea: Ziphiidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 29(3):235-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68036: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon densirostris Blainville 1817 beaked whale