Senese Hills: Pliocene, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Delphinidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Steno sp.
Gray 1846
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Tursiops cortesii
(Fischer 1829)
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2 specimens | ||||||
recombined as Hemisyntrachelus cortesii | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Italy |
Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 11.3° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 43.2° North, 11.2° 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
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: | 49688 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-23 12:21:37 | Last modified: | 2006-08-16 20:05:28 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-23 12:21:36 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13332. | G. Pilleri. 1987. The Cetacea of the Italian Pliocene 1-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |