Murbko: Langhian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
? Aglaocetus sp. Kellogg 1934
1 specimen
    = aff. Parietobalaena palmeri Kellogg 1924
Bearlin 1985
or Heterocetus brevifrons
    = cf. Parietobalaena sp. Kellogg 1924
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]