Where: South Africa (33.4° S, 18.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 17.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• "the most probable age for these skulls would be middle to early late Miocene, but we cannot completely exclude older ages. Because more reduced phosphogenic phases occurred later in the Miocene and Pliocene, some specimens might even prove to be younger."
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. J. B. Ross. 1986. Fossil Beaked Whales. 2(3):275 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77211: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867 toothed whale | |
Pterocetus benguelae n. gen. n. sp., Ihlengesi saldanhae n. gen. n. sp.
Pterocetus benguelae n. gen. n. sp. Bianucci et al. 2007 beaked whale
Ihlengesi saldanhae n. gen. n. sp. Bianucci et al. 2007 beaked whale |