Monte Duello: Bartonian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Ornithonemus sp.
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Altichieri 1980 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Halitherium veronense n. sp.
de Zigno 1875
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Prototherium veronense | ||||||||||
Halitherium curvidens n. sp.
de Zigno 1875
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1 specimen | |||||||||
synonym of Prototherium veronense | ||||||||||
Paraliosiren suessi
Abel 1906
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Abel 1906 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Prototherium veronense | ||||||||||
Halitherium angustifrons n. sp.
de Zigno 1875
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1 specimen | |||||||||
synonym of Prototherium veronense | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Palaeophiidae
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Palaeophis oweni n. sp.
de Zigno 1881
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de Zigno 1881 | |||||||||
MGP-PD 6981Z - lectotype | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx cf. capellinii
Negri 1892
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Altichieri 1980 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Crocodylus arduini n. sp.
De Zigno 1880
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Altichieri 1980 | |||||||||
recombined as Megadontosuchus arduini | ||||||||||
MGPD 1Z - lectotype (a nearly complete skull with lower jaws); Referred material: MGPD 5Z (skull lacking the anterior part of the rostrum), MGPD 4Z (anterior part of the rostrum belonging to specimen MGPD 5Z), MGPD 6Z (fragment of a right mandibular ramus, lacking retroarticular process), MGPD 8Z (nearly complete mandibular ramus [probably these remains belong to the original type series]), MGPD 24Z (cervical vertebra) and MGPD 25Z (dorsal vertebra) - see Piras et al. 2007 | ||||||||||
Acipenseriformes
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Coelorhynchus rectus
Agassiz 1843
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de Zigno 1881 | |||||||||
recombined as Cylindracanthus rectus | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis bassani n. sp.
de Zigno 1881
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de Zigno 1881 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatis elegans
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Altichieri 1980 | |||||||||
[entered as Myliobates elegans] | ||||||||||
Myliobatis ombonii
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Altichieri 1980 | |||||||||
[entered as Myliobates ombonii] | ||||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Hercoglossidae
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Nautilus leonicensis n. sp.
de Zigno 1881
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de Zigno 1881 | |||||||||
recombined as Cimomia leonicensis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Hemicardium degregorii n. sp.
de Zigno 1881
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de Zigno 1881 | |||||||||
Malacostraca
- Isopoda
- Cirolanidae
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Sphaeroma catulloi n. sp.
de Zigno 1881
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de Zigno 1881 | |||||||||
recombined as Palaega catulloi | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Italy | State/province: | Verona | County: | Roncà |
Coordinates: | 45.8° North, 11.3° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.0° North, 9.2° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Orizzonte di Roncà | Member: | Nummulitic limestone | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Nummulitic limestone, Orizzonte di Roncà, Bartonian, late middle Eocene |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Monte Zuello | ||
Database number: | 48159 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-03-15 10:05:47 | Last modified: | 2020-09-25 16:33:07 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-15 10:05:47 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
36621. | A. de Zigno. 1875. Sirenii fossili trovati nel Veneto. Memorie del Reale Instituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti 18:427-456 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
25371 | O. Abel. 1906. Die Milchmolaren der Sirenen. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1906(2):50-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/T. Liebrecht] | |
12903 | L. Altichieri. 1980. Il giacimento di Monte Duello (Verona). I vertebrat fossili italiani-Catalog della Mostra Verona 159-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
18727 | A. de Zigno. 1881. Nuove aggiunte alla fauna Eocena del Veneto. Memorie del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 21:775-790 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12966 | D. P. Domning. 1996. Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 80:1-611 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
73019 | G. L. Georgalis, L. del Favero, and M. Delfino. 2020. Italy’s largest snake: Redescription of Palaeophis oweni from the Eocene of Monte Duello, near Verona. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(3):523-533 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
46543 | P. Piras, M. Delfino, L. Favero and T. Kotsakis. 2007. Phylogenetic position of the crocodylian Megadontosuchus arduini and tomistomine palaeobiogeography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(2):315-328 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |