Also known as Ceva, Piemonte, northwestern Italy (Fig. 1); early Miocene (MN 1β2; Delle Cave,
Where: Toscana, Italy (43.1° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 9.9° E)
When: MN 1-2 mammal zone, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• early Miocene (MN 1β2)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Mayr and M. Pavia. 2014. On the true affinities of Chenornis graculoides Portis, 1884, and Anas lignitifila Portis, 1884βan albatross and an unusual duck from the Miocene of Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(4):914-923 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 152908: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Shahed Alam on 03.12.2013, edited by Mark Uhen and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
"Anas lignitifila" = Bambolinetta lignitifila
"Anas lignitifila" = Bambolinetta lignitifila Portis 1884 duck | |
Reptilia | |
Trionyx portisi n. sp. Ristori 1891 softshell turtle Probably IGF (syntype), a rather complete cara- pace, missing only the nuchal, and parts of neural I and costals I (Ristori 1895, pl. 2.8); probably IGF (syntype), a carapace frag- ment (Ristori 1895, pl. 2.12); probably IGF (syntype), a carapace fragment (Ristori 1895, pl. 2.13)
Trionyx bambolii n. sp. Ristori 1891 softshell turtle MUSNAF (syntype), a partial carapace and asso- ciated thoracic vertebrae (Ristori 1895, pl. 1.1, 2; Guasparri 1992, fig. 30.2); MUSNAF (syntype), a carapace fragment, one cervi- cal vertebra, and a partial epiplastron (Ristori 1895, pl. 1.3); MSNP (syntype), a carapace fragment, consisting of right costals and neurals I and II (Ristori 1895, pl. 1.4); IGF 999V (syntype), fragment of a hyoplastron and coracoid (Ristori 1895, pl. 2.9); MUSNAF (syntype), a carapace fragment of a juvenile individual (Ristori 1895, not figured)
Trionyx senensis n. sp. Ristori 1891 softshell turtle IGF (syntype), an almost complete carapace (Ris- tori 1895, pl. 2.7); probably IGF (syntype), a carapace fragment, containing the last neurals (Ristori 1895, pls. 1.5, 2.10); proba- bly IGF (syntype), a carapace fragment in visceral view, along with parts of vertebrae and pectoral girdle (Ristori 1895, pl. 1.6).
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