Saaling Peninsula (Oligocene of Denmark)

Where: Jylland, Denmark (56.7° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vejle Fjord Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• late Chattian; calcareous nodules washed up on the beach from coastal exposures

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• calcareous nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: hydrochloric

Primary reference: E. Hoch. 2000. Olfaction in whales: Evidence from a young odontocete of the Late Oligocene North Sea. Historical Biology 14:67-89 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 107511: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 09.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Entered by Carrie Cross Bio 334
Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Platanistoidea indet. Simpson 1945 toothed whale