Where: Tuscany, Italy (43.1° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 11.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MPL5a? other zone, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Zanclean (MN 15), Upper portion of Globorotalia puncticulata Zone (Vaiani, pers. comm., 2006), according to Bianucci et al 2008

Environment/lithology: coastal; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: G. Pilleri and O. Pilleri. 1982. Catalogue of the fossil odontocetes (Cetaca) in the Bologna Giovanni Capellini Museum of Palaeontology with description of a new species of Hoplocetus (Physeteridae). Memorie di Scienceze Geologische, Memoire degli Istituti de Geologia e Minerologia dell'universita di Padova 35:293-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48655: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.03.2005

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