Blackheath: Piacenzian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Belemnoziphius compressus n. gen., n. sp.
Huxley 1864
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Suffolk |
Coordinates: | 52.1° North, 1.2° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.1° 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: | 85154 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-12-03 08:40:16 | Last modified: | 2017-05-19 14:30:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-12-03 08:40:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12787. | T. H. Huxley. 1864. On the cetacean fossils termed Ziphius by Cuvier, with a notice of a new species (Belemnoziphius compressus) from the Red Crag. Proceedings of the Geological Society 20:388-396 [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] |