Gochfortzberg: Late/Upper Miocene, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Plesiocetus sp.
Van Beneden 1859
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| sp. KK | ||||||||||
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= Cetotheriidae indet.
Brandt 1872
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Bisconti and Bosselaers 2021 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Westphalia |
| Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 6.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.9° North, 5.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Specimen was found in a block of upper Miocene sands transported from its original place during the Saalian glacial period. | |
Taphonomy
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80236 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-04-09 10:51:48 | Last modified: | 2008-08-19 11:23:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-04-09 10:51:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26983. | O. Hampe. 1996. Ein artikuliertes Bartenwalskelett aus dem Neogen (?Uedem-Schichten, Obermiozän) der Neiederrheinischen Bucht (NW-Deutschland) und seine systematische Stellung innerhalb der Mysticeti (Mammalia: Cetacea). Decheniana Beiheft 33:1-75 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 77114 | M. Bisconti and M. Bosselaers. 2021. On Plesiocetus Van Beneden, 1859 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 127(2):231-274 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |