Camerano Casasco: Zanclean, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Tursiops cortesii (Fischer 1829)
1 specimen
recombined as Hemisyntrachelus cortesii
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 8.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.9° North, 8.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sabbie d'Asti
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:54157
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-09-25 13:12:05 Last modified:2024-03-19 13:11:51
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-25 13:12:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14642. F. Sacco. 1893. Delfino Pliocenico di camerano Casasco (Astigiana). Memoria della Societa Italiana delle Scienze 9(5):1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

87930 K. Agiadi, N. Hohmann, E. Gliozzi, D. Thivaiou, F. R. Bosellini, M. Taviani, G. Bianucci, A. Collareta, L. Londeix, C. Faranda, F. Bulian, E. Koskeridou, F. Lozar, A. M. Mancini, S. Dominici, P. Moissette, I. B. Campos, E. Borghi, G. Iliopoulos, A. Antonarakou, and G. Kontakiotis. 2024. A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth System Science Data [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
64534 D. Ormezzano and A. Lanzetti. 2014. I cetacei fossili del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino. Museologia Scientifica Memorie 13:18-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]