North Sea, west of Rotterdam: Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Platalearostrum hoekmani n. gen., n. sp. Post and Kompanje 2010
1 specimen
Hemisyntrachelus sp. (Brandt 1873)
Bakker and Post 2020
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 2.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.0° North, 2.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Mid-Pliocene to Early Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: trawled from the bottom of the North Sea
Metadata
Database number:107396
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-04-07 04:11:33 Last modified:2011-04-06 14:11:33
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-07 04:11:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35743. K. Post and E. J. O. Kompanje. 2010. A new dolphin (Cetacea, Delphinidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the North Sea. Deinsea 14:1-12 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

77605 H. Bakker and K. Post. 2020. New records of Hemisyntrachelus (Odontoceti, Delphinidae) from the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene of the southern North Sea. Cainozoic Research 20(1):109-120 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]