The Earthquakes (Kokoamu Greensand): Duntroonian, New Zealand
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Chaeomysticeti indet.
(Mitchell 1989)
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Marx et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| OU 22380 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eomysticetidae
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Eomysticetidae indet.
Sanders and Barnes 2002
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Marx et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| OU 22044 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Whakakai waipata n. gen., n. sp.
Tsai and Fordyce 2016
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| OU 21927 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | New Zealand | State/province: | South Island |
| Coordinates: | 44.9° South, 170.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.1° South, 174.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Duntroonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.30000 - 25.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kokoamu Greensand |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: leached glauconitic silt | |
| Environment: | marine 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: | 173284 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | C. Peredo, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-09-15 12:27:21 | Last modified: | 2016-06-01 10:35:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-09-15 12:27:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59292. | C. H. Tsai and R. E. Fordyce. 2016. Archaic baleen whale from the Kokoamu Greensand: earbones distinguish a new late Oligocene mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 46(2):117-138 [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] |