Cava di Verrua, Savoy: Pliocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Orcinus cf. citoniensis
(Capellini 1883)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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= Delphinidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Bianucci 1996 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | France |
| Coordinates: | 45.5° North, 6.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.6° North, 6.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Pilleri (1988) states that this collection is Langhian to Serravalian, but Pilleri (1996) states that it is Pliocene |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 52059 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-07-18 08:43:44 | Last modified: | 2009-02-05 11:57:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-18 08:43:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29143. | G. Pilleri. 1988. Pre-and post-Messinian Cetacea in the Mediterranean Tethys and the Messinian salinity crisis. Contributions to the Paleontology of Some Tethyan Cetacea and Sirenia (Mammalia) 19-40 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 12278 | G. Bianucci. 1996. The Odontoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from Italian Pliocene systematics and phylogenesis of Delphinidae. Palaeontologrphia Italia 83:73-167 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |