Challenger Station 286 (Neogene of South Pacific)

Where: South Pacific (33.5° S, 133.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° S, 122.0° W)

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When: Neogene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep-water; unlithified, red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: dredged from a depth of 2335 fathoms

Primary reference: C. R. Eastman. 1906. Sharks' teeth and cetacean bones. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 50(4):75-98 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99587: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon sp. Gervais 1850 beaked whale
 Cetacea - Kogiidae
Kogia sp. Gray 1846 pygmy sperm whale
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821 dolphin
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
"aff. Balaenoptera antarctica" = Megaptera novaeangliae, "aff. Balaenoptera rostrata" = Balaenoptera acutorostrata
"aff. Balaenoptera antarctica" = Megaptera novaeangliae Brisson 1762 humpback whale
"aff. Balaenoptera rostrata" = Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède 1804 minke whale
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
"aff. Balaena australis" = Eubalaena australis
"aff. Balaena australis" = Eubalaena australis Desmoulins 1822 southern right whale