Murbko: Langhian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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? Aglaocetus sp.
Kellogg 1934
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= aff. Parietobalaena palmeri
Kellogg 1924
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Bearlin 1985 | |||||||||
or Heterocetus brevifrons | ||||||||||
= cf. Parietobalaena sp.
Kellogg 1924
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Fitzgerald 2004 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
Coordinates: | 34.2° South, 139.7° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° South, 137.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Glenforslan | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Balcombian, early middle Miocene |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: bryozoal calcarenite | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Murbko Homestead | ||
Database number: | 51327 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-06-02 18:09:28 | Last modified: | 2015-04-08 15:38:48 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-02 18:09:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13527. | M. F. Glaessner. 1955. Pelagic fossils (Aturia, penguins, whales) from the Tertiary of South Australia. Records of the South Australia Museum 353-371 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
34545 | R. K. Bearlin. 1985. The morphology and systematics of Neogene mysticetes (baleen whales) from Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Record 9:11-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
13672 | E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |