Selva fishing ground (Miocene to of Spain)

Where: Spain (44.2° N, 8.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 9.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Messinian to Messinian (7.2 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: G. Bianucci, I. Miján, and O. Lambert. 2013. Bizarre fossil beaked whales (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula. Geodiversitas 35(1):105-153 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141838: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
aff. Ziphirostrum sp. Du Bus 1868 beaked whale
Choneziphius leidyi n. sp. Bianucci et al. 2013 beaked whale
Tusciziphius atlanticus Bianucci et al. 2013 beaked whale
Beneziphius cetariensis n. sp. Miján et al. 2017 beaked whale