Where: Tuscany, Italy (43.0° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 11.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Dominici et al. (2018) divided the whole Pliocene marine succession of Tuscany into six synthems (S1 to S6) and referred Orcinus citoniensis to a broad stratigraphical interval (S3 to S6) accounting for the whole Piacenzian (3.6-2.59 Ma). However, alternative chronostratigraphic assessments of the siliciclastic deposits exposed in the vicinities of Cetona place these sediments within the Zanclean (Nalin et al., 2016, fig. 2). Unfortunately, no biostratigraphically significant microfossils were found by examining a sample of the sediment that entombs the fossil (S.C. Vaiani, pers. comm.). All things considered, the O. citoniensis holotype is referred herein to a generic Pliocene epoch.

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: G. Capellini. 1883. Di Un'Orca fossile scoperta a cetona in Toscana. Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto di Bologna 4:1-25 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 54099: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.09.2005

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