Piacentino: Pliocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Tursiops cortesii (Fischer 1829)
recombined as Hemisyntrachelus cortesii
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Acharax doderleini (Mayer 1861)
Taviani et al. 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 9.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.8° North, 10.3° 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 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:48654
Authorizer:M. Uhen, W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Uhen, M. Krause
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-25 10:43:34 Last modified:2010-10-29 13:09:25
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-25 10:43:34
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]

Secondary references:

28799 A. Del Prato. 1900. Balena fossile del Piacentino. Rivista italiana di paleontologia 6:136-142 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
60329 M. Taviani, L. Angeletti, and A. Ceregato. 2011. Chemosynthetic bivalves of the family Solemyidae (bivalvia, protobranchia) in the Neogene of the Mediterranean Basin. Journal of Paleontology 85(6):1067-1076 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]