I40/f579, Sister's Creek: Whaingaroan, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
1 specimen
replaced by Matapanui
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:South Island
Coordinates: 44.6° South, 170.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.4° South, 172.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene
Key time interval:Whaingaroan
Age range of interval:34.30000 - 27.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kokoamu Greensand
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:179791
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-06-30 20:01:19 Last modified:2016-06-30 20:01:19
Access level:the public Released:2016-06-30 20:01:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59630. R. W. Boessenecker and R. E. Fordyce. 2017. A new eomysticetid from the Oligocene Kokoamu Greensand of New Zealand and a review of the Eomysticetidae (Mammalia, Cetacea). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(6):429-469 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]