Graso: Holocene, Sweden
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eschrichtiidae
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Balaenoptera robusta n. sp.
Lilljeborg 1861
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Cuvier 1824 | ||||||
| recombined as Eschrichtius robustus | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Mytilus edulis
Linnaeus 1758
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Cederlund 1939 | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina baltica
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Cederlund 1939 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Sweden | State/province: | Gräso |
| Coordinates: | 60.5° North, 18.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 60.5° North, 18.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 4395 ± 155 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | unlithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80623 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-04-30 07:57:05 | Last modified: | 2022-08-01 09:10:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-04-30 07:57:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29778. | A. B. Van Deinse. 1937. Recent and older finds of the California Gray Whale in the Atlantic. Temnickia 2:161-188 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 27125 | P. J. Bryant. 1995. Dating remains of gray whales from the eastern North Atlantic. Journal of Mammalogy 76(3):857-861 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 82316 | A. Cederlund. 1939. A subfossil grey whale discovered in Sweden in 1859. Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala 18:269-285 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 14621 | G. Cuvier. 1824. Recherches sur les ossements fossiles 5(1):1-352 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 61733 | E. G. Garrison, G. S. Morgan, K. McGrath, C. Speller, and A. Cherkinsky. 2019. Recent dating of extinct Atlantic gray whale fossils, (Eschrichtius robustus), Georgia Bight and Florida, western Atlantic Ocean. PeerJ 7(e6381):1-22 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
| 12161 | P. Hershkovitz. 1966. Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin 246:1-259 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 29063 | J. G. Mead and E. D. Mitchell. 1984. Atlantic gray whales. The Gray Whale 33-53 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |