Taihape: Opoitian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
1 specimen
    = cf. Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804
Bearlin 1985
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 39.7° South, 175.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.8° South, 176.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Opoitian
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:74753
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-08-28 07:49:35 Last modified:2007-08-28 10:49:35
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-28 07:49:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25068. R. E. Fordyce. 1982. The fossil vertebrate record of New Zealand. The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Australia [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

34545 R. K. Bearlin. 1985. The morphology and systematics of Neogene mysticetes (baleen whales) from Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Record 9:11-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]