Where: Apulia, Italy (40.4° N, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pietra Leccese Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 5.3 Ma)

• late Burdigalian to early Messinian, about 6-18 Ma

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying

• Cosimo de Giorgi Collection of the Museum of the Technical Institute, Lecce, Italy.

Primary reference: G. Bianucci. 2001. A new genus of kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the Miocene of South Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):573-577 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45504: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nick Pyenson on 26.10.2004, edited by Mark Uhen

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