Senese Hills: Pliocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821
Steno sp. Gray 1846
Tursiops cortesii (Fischer 1829)
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]