Where: Palermo, Italy (38.2° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 13.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Calcareniti e sabbie di Castellammare Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• The sediment embedding the whale barnacles is attributed to the calcareous nanno- plankton zone MNN 19a of RIO et al. (1990), that is, to the interval 1.93 - 1.71 Ma (according to BACKMAN et al., 2012).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Collareta, G. Insacco, A. Reitano, R. Catanzariti, M. Bosselaers, M. Montes, and G. Bianucci. 2018. Fossil whale barnacles from the lower Pleistocene of Sicily shed light on the coeval Mediterranean cetacean fauna. Carnets de géologie 18(2):9-22 [M. Uhen/M. Nelson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77592: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Coronula bifida Bronn 1831 whale barnacle |