Agulhas Bank (Holocene of South Africa)

Where: South Africa (37.2° S, 21.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 21.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Holocene?

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, phosphatic sandstone

Primary reference: K. H. Barnard. 1954. A guide book to South African Whales and Dolphins. South African Museum 4:1-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79916: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Makaria sp.
listed as "marlin"
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
cf. Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier 1824 Cuvier's beaked whale
poriton of a skull closely resembling that of Cuvier's Beaked whale
Mesoplodon sp. Gervais 1850 beaked whale
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
cf. Orcinus orca Linnaeus 1758 orca
lower jaw resembling that of a killer whale
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Eubalaena australis Desmoulins 1822 southern right whale
listed as right whale
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera physalus Linnaeus 1758 fin whale
listed as fin whale
Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish