Oricano Pisano: Pliocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon meneghinii (Lawley 1876)
nomen dubium belonging to Mesoplodon
Mesoplodon medilineatus (Owen 1870)
nomen dubium belonging to Mesoplodon
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Tursiops brocchii (Balsamo Crivelli 1842)
recombined as Tursiops brochii
Tursiops cortesii (Fischer 1829)
recombined as Hemisyntrachelus cortesii
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Tuscany
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 10.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.4° North, 10.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:48645
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-25 07:46:01 Last modified:2010-10-29 12:57:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-25 07:46:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12981. G. Pilleri and O. Pilleri. 1982. Catalogue of the fossil odontocetes (Cetaca) in the Bologna Giovanni Capellini Museum of Palaeontology with description of a new species of Hoplocetus (Physeteridae). Memorie di Scienceze Geologische, Memoire degli Istituti de Geologia e Minerologia dell'universita di Padova 35:293-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]