Where: Portugal (38.6° N, 9.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 10.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Zone VIIb (Berkeley Cotter, 1904); horizon of Pecten scabrellus var. macrotis

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•Cotter‟s lithostratigraphic zone VIIb [95] includes the youngest Miocene rocks present in the Lower Tagus Basin. At Adiça, the exposed rock seems to date to the middle or late Tortonian (9.5–8.5 Ma) [96, 97]. Together, this indicates a total age range of 11.7–8.5 Ma. (Marx & Fordyce, 2015).

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•The skull was retrieved from the Miocene, lower Tortonian [49], Lisbon Miocene Cotter’s division VIIb (ca. 10 Ma) [50]. According to Vandelli [24], the skull was found in thick dark green limestone, full of invertebrate shells.

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, green limestone and argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1940. On the cetotheres figured by Vandelli. Boletime do Labrotorio Mineralogico e Geologico da Universidade de Lisboa 3(7-8):13-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52111: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.07.2005

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