Where: Belgium (51.2° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.3° N, 4.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Kattendijk Sands Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Early Pliocene; in fact, its age is estimated to be 5.0 to 4.4 Ma (De Schepper, Head & Louwye, 2009)

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Bisconti and M. E. J. Bosselaers. 2020. A new balaenopterid species from the Southern North Sea Basin informs about phylogeny and taxonomy of Burtinopsis and Protororqualus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae). PeerJ 8(e9570):1-47 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 212617: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.08.2020

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