All Day Bay: Langhian, New Zealand

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodelphinidae
Ortega and Fordyce 2009 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea
Ortega and Fordyce 2009 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand State/province:North Otago
Coordinates: 45.2° South, 170.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.7° South, 175.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gee Greensand
Stratigraphy comments: Otaian or Altonian stage. Originally said to be from the Rifle Butts Formation; assigned to the Gee Greensand by Ortega & Fordyce 2009.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: slightly glauconitic blue clay
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:J42/f12
Database number:45659
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-11-21 11:09:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-11-21 11:09:13
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
12137. W. B. Benham. 1935. A reptilian jaw from Kakanui, South Island, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 65:232-238 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

29132 B. D. Field, M. P. Crundwell, J. P. Kennett, P. R. King, C. M. Jones and G. H. Scott. 2002. The early Middle Miocene paleoenvironmental setting of New Zealand. Revistia Mexicana de Ciencias Geologica 19(3):242-251 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12036 R. E. Fordyce. 1980. The Fossil Cetacea of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Report 90:1-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
33388 M. E. Ortega and R. E. Fordyce. 2009. Early Miocene dolphins form Awamoa Beach, North Otago. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publicaiton 128A:164 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]