Where: South Africa (35.2° S, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° S, 22.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• "the most probable age for these skulls would be middle to early late Miocene, but we cannot completely exclude older ages. Because more reduced phosphogenic phases occurred later in the Miocene and Pliocene, some specimens might even prove to be younger."

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

Primary reference: G. Bianucci, O. Lambert, and K. Post. 2007. A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa. Geodiversitas 29(4):561-618 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77210: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.12.2007

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