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Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-151-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-151-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
Research article
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06 Aug 2020
Research article |  | 06 Aug 2020

An unfamiliar physeteroid periotic (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the German middle–late Miocene North Sea basin at Groß Pampau

Irene Montañez-Rivera and Oliver Hampe

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The locality of Groß Pampau in northern Germany is famous for its rich marine mammal assemblage of the Miocene age. A newly discovered ear bone of a fossil sperm whale is described here with morphological characters so far unknown from other sperm whales. It remains unclear at this point if it could belong to a sperm whale whose fragments were discovered in the same locality or to another, already-described taxon, of which the ear bones are still unknown.
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