Where: Netherlands (51.6° N, 3.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 0.8 Ma)

• According to Scager the sea floor consists of sediments of the terrestrial Waalre Formation (3.6-1.0 Ma), and/or the marine Maassluis Formation (2.0-1.8 Ma), both overlying the marine Oosterhout Formation (5.2-2.6 Ma).

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: dredged from the sea floor

Primary reference: K. Post and M. Bosselaers. 2017. Cetacean fossils from a 1961 expedition at the Schelde estuary, province of Zeeland, The Netherlands. Cainozoic Research 17(1):11-21 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189573: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.10.2017

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