Taihape: Opoitian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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1 specimen | ||||||
= cf. Balaenoptera sp.
Lacépède 1804
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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] |