Montaña Roja, Fuerteventura (Holocene of Spain)

Where: Canary Islands, Spain (28.6° N, 13.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 13.8° W)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Begoña Santos, V. Martin, M. Arbelo, A. Fernandez, and G. J. Pierce. 2007. Insights into the diet of beaked whales from the atypical mass stranding in the Canary Islands in September 2002. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 87:243-251 [T. Park/T. Park]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230214: authorized by Travis Park, entered by Travis Park on 24.05.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon europaeus Gervais 1852 beaked whale