Also known as I40/f25

Where: North Otago, New Zealand (44.8° S, 170.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° S, 175.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Otekaike Limestone Formation, Chattian (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Waitakian, Oligocene

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: W. B. Benham. 1935. The teeth of an extinct whale, Microcetus hectori n. sp. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 65:239-243 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45658: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.11.2004