Shotley: Piacenzian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Ziphius planus n. sp.
Owen 1870
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1 specimen | ||||||
| synonym of Choneziphius planirostris | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Suffolk |
| Coordinates: | 52.0° North, 1.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.0° North, 0.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Red Crag |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | foreshore |
| Geology comments: The Red Crag Formation exhibits a shallow marine environment with nearshore deposits. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 85153 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | S. Strother | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-12-03 08:13:30 | Last modified: | 2010-08-09 15:18:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-12-03 08:13:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14624. | R. Owen. 1870. Monograph of the British fossil Cetacea from the Red Crag. Memoirs of the Palaeontological Society 23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 19452 | J. A. Zalasiewicz, S. J. Mathers, M. J. Hughes, P. L. Gibbard, S. M. Peglar, R. Harland, R. A. Nicholson, G. S. Boulton, P. Cambridge and G. P. Wealthall. 1988. Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Red Crag and Norwich Crag Formations between Aldeburgh and Sizewll, Suffolk, England. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 322(1210):221-272 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |