Cortada fishing ground (Miocene to of Spain)

Where: Spain (43.5° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 10.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: G. Bianucci, I. Miján, and O. Lambert. 2013. Bizarre fossil beaked whales (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula. Geodiversitas 35(1):105-153 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141840: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
aff. Caviziphius sp. Bianucci and Post 2005 beaked whale
Tusciziphius atlanticus n. sp. Bianucci et al. 2013 beaked whale