Tourinan Cape, near (Miocene to of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.8° N, 9.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 10.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian to Messinian (7.2 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: G. Bianucci, I. Miján, and O. Lambert. 2013. Bizarre fossil beaked whales (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula. Geodiversitas 35(1):105-153 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141842: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Globicetus hiberus Bianucci et al. 2013 beaked whale