North Sea, west of Rotterdam (Pliocene to of Netherlands)
Where: Netherlands (52.0° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 2.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Mid-Pliocene to Early Pleistocene
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: trawled from the bottom of the North Sea
Primary reference: K. Post and E. J. O. Kompanje. 2010. A new dolphin (Cetacea, Delphinidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the North Sea. Deinsea 14:1-12 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 107396: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
Platalearostrum hoekmani n. gen. n. sp., Hemisyntrachelus sp.
Platalearostrum hoekmani n. gen. n. sp. Post and Kompanje 2010 Hoekman’s blunt-snouted dolphin
Hemisyntrachelus sp. Brandt 1873 dolphin | |