Gironde: Pliocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Cetotherium burtinii (Van Beneden 1859)
Van Beneden 1872
nomen dubium belonging to Thalassotherii
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 44.8° North, 0.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.9° North, 0.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments:
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:65176
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-09-19 13:58:50 Last modified:2007-01-17 09:04:18
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-19 13:58:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13983. P. J. Van Beneden and P. Gervais. 1880. Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles, comprenant la description et l'iconographie du squelette et du système dentaire de ces animaux; ainsi que des documents relatifs à leur histoire naturelle 1-634 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

18788 C. Depéret. 1914. Sur la reconstitution d'un squelette de Felsinotherium serresi, Sirenien pliocene des sables de Montpellier [On the reconstruction of a skeleton of Felsinotherium serresi, Pliocene sirenian from the Montpellier sandstones]. Comptes Rendus de la Academie des Sciences, Paris 158:1858-1914 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]
12326 P. J. Van Beneden. 1872. Les Baleines fossiles d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts 34:6-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]