Bells Headland: Chattian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Mammalodontidae
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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1 specimen | |||||||||
new family | ||||||||||
= Mammalodontidae indet.
Mitchell 1989
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Marx et al. 2019 | |||||||||
NMV P216928 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
Coordinates: | 38.4° South, 144.3° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.9° South, 142.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
Key time interval: | Chattian | ||
Age range of interval: | 28.10000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Member: | Point Addis Limestone | Local bed: | lower beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandy "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: sandy bryozoal calcarenite | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 51391 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-06-03 06:45:55 | Last modified: | 2006-01-30 11:51:33 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-03 06:45:55 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
Secondary references:
72000 | F. G. Marx, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and R. E. Fordyce. 2019. Like phoenix from the ashes: How modern baleen whales arose from a fossil “dark age”. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(2):231-238 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |