I40/f579, Sister's Creek: Whaingaroan, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eomysticetidae
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Matapa sp.
Boessenecker and Fordyce 2017
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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] |