Where: Bohuslan, Sweden (58.9° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• The date places the whale almost in the middle of the deglaciation period between the last glacial maximum (ca. 22,000 BP) and the 4/Holocene transition at about 11,700BP.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: C. Anderung, S. Danise, A. G. Glover, N. D. Higgs, L. Jonsson, R. Sabin, and T. G. Dahlgren. 2014. A Swedish subfossil find of a bowhead whale from the late Pleistocene: shore displacement, paleoecology in south-west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (Balaena swedenborgii Liljeborg, 1867). Historical Biology 26(1):58-65 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 140009: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.02.2013

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