Fiume Metauro (Pliocene to of Italy)

Also known as Metauro River

Where: Italy (43.8° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 12.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• no formation listed

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Sorbini. 1988. Biogeography and climatology of Pliocene and Messinian fossil fish of eastern-central Italy. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Verona 14:1-85 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 145678: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Argyropelecus sp. Cocco 1829
Maurolicus muelleri Gmelin 1789 Mueller's pearlside
 Stomiatiformes - Gonostomatidae
Cyclothone sp. Goode and Bean 1883
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadiculus sp. Guichenot 1850
Micromesistius poutassou Risso 1827 blue whiting
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Bregmaceros albyi Sauvage 1880
 Perciformes - Sparidae
Boops sp. Cuvier 1814 perch-like fish
 Tetraodontiformes -
Alutera sp. Oken 1817
 Acanthomorphata - Caproidae
Capros aper Lacepede 1921
 Carangiformes - Carangidae
Trachurus sp. Lacépède 1802
 Beloniformes - Hemiramphidae
Hyporhamphus sp. Gill 1860
 Syngnathiformes - Dactylopteridae
 Syngnathiformes - Centriscidae
 Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae
Syngnathidae indet.
gen.? et sp. nov.
Hippocampus sp. Rafinesque 1810 sea horse
Syngnathus acus pipefish
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Hygophum sp. Bolin 1939 lanternfish
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Spratelloides gracilis Temminck and Schlegel 1846 herring
Osteichthyes
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