Bells Headland: Chattian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Mammalodontidae
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
1 specimen
new family
    = Mammalodontidae indet. Mitchell 1989
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]