Hallazgos de restos fósiles de Hyperoodon sp. (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) en las costas gallegas (NO España)

Abstract

The frequent finding of fossil data of cetaceans in the Galician deep seas reveals us the existence of a very important cetacean paleontological deposit that placement is over 300 meters deep. Moreover the discovering of Globicephalinae rostra, mysticets tympanics and other rests highly degraded, the findings of two Hyperoodon sp. skulls from Miocene which are in a excellent conservation condition suppose one of the rare evidences of the primitive Hyperoodon and probably it means new species no described yet more plesiomorfic than known ones in this genre.