Esbjerg (Miocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (55.5° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 55.7° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gram Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• late Miocene

Environment/lithology: coastal; silty, sandy claystone

• shallow-water marine deposti of silty to upward more sandy micaceous clays

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: N. D. Pyenson and E. Hoch. 2007. Tortonian pontoporiid odontocetes from the eastern North Seas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):757-762 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75061: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Pontoporiidae indet. Gray 1870 toothed whale
cf. Pontistes sp. Burmeister 1885 toothed whale