Centerville Beach: Calabrian, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenoptera physalus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Humboldt |
| Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 124.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.3° North, 123.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Rio Dell | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Altogether, magnetostratigraphy indicates an age of 1.3–0.95 Ma (Calabrian, Early Pleistocene) for UCMP 238399. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: siltstone and claystone | |
| Environment: | deep subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V99901 | ||
| Database number: | 186603 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-06-27 12:26:25 | Last modified: | 2020-11-06 13:27:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-06-27 12:26:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62568. | C.-H. Tsai and R. W. Boessenecker. 2017. The earliest-known fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, from the Early Pleistocene of northern California, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1306536 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |