A new beaked whale record from the upper Miocene of Menorca, Balearic Islands, based on CT-scan analysis of limestone slabs
The finding of significant vertebrate remains inside commercial stone blocks is relatively rare. Here we describe a fossil cetacean skull discovered inside two slabs cut from a limestone block of Tortonian (i.e., early late Miocene) age from Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain); this find represents th...
Main Authors: | Giovanni Bianucci, Josep Quintana Cardona, Alberto Collareta, Agustí Rodríguez Florit, Sergio Llàcer |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of Paleobiology PAS
2019-06-01
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Series: | Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |
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Online Access: | http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app64/app005932019.pdf |
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