Monte Falcone Castell'Arquato: Piacenzian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Cetotherium capellinii (Brandt 1873)
1 specimen
recombined as Cetotheriophanes capellinii
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaenidae indet. (Gray 1821)
Bisconti and Francou 2014 1 specimen
original and current combination Balanadae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède 1804
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838
Freschi 2017
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 44.9° North, 9.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.7° North, 10.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: whale fall
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:153708
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-01-09 15:57:06 Last modified:2019-10-24 16:33:45
Access level:the public Released:2014-01-09 15:57:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
49778. S. Danise and S. Dominici. 2014. A record of fossil shallow-water whale falls from Italy. Lethaia [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

64523 M. Bisconti and C. Francou. 2014. I cetacei fossili conservati presso il Museo Geologico di Castell’Arquato (Piacenza). Museologia Scientifica Memoire 13:31-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
64554 A. Freschi. 2017. New Carcharodon scavenging evidence on Pliocene whale bones remains from Northern Appennines. Quaderni del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Ferrara 5:33-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]