La Torrazza: Zanclean, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Bisconti and Francou 2014 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Delphinus cortesii n. sp.
Fischer 1829
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Fischer 1829 | ||||||
| recombined as Hemisyntrachelus cortesii | |||||||
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Tursiops capellinii n. sp.
Del Prato 1898
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| synonym of Hemisyntrachelus cortesii | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Piacenza |
| Coordinates: | 44.8° North, 9.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.6° North, 10.2° 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
| Stratigraphy comments: lower Pliocene |
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: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Chiavenna | ||
| Database number: | 67108 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-11-08 14:29:39 | Last modified: | 2017-08-04 14:30:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-11-08 14:29:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19138. | A. Del Prato. 1898. Il Tursiops capellinii Sacco del Pliocene Piacentino. Palaeontographia Italica 3:1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 64523 | M. Bisconti and C. Francou. 2014. I cetacei fossili conservati presso il Museo Geologico di Castell’Arquato (Piacenza). Museologia Scientifica Memoire 13:31-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 18166 | J. B. Fischer. 1829. Synopsis Mammalium 1-752 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 29152 | G. Pilleri. 1979. Taxonomic status of Cortesi's Dolphin (Tursiops cortesi, KEFERSTEIN, 1834) from the Lower Pliocene of Northern Italy. Investigations on Cetacea 10:71-86 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |