Poggio Tagliato: Piacenzian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Chlamis varia
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaena sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster cf. major
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Haustator vermicularis (Brocchi 1814)
recombined as Turritella (Haustator) vermicularis
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula gibba (Oliva 1792)
recombined as Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista italica
Pelecyora gigas
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma cf. elliptica (Lamarck 1818)
synonym of Laciolina magna
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Pisa
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 10.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.6° North, 10.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Piacenzian Other zone: MPL5a
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: age after Danise & Dominici 2014
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: shelf mudstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: whale fall
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Ponte a Elsa
Database number:88328
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-04-07 06:45:17 Last modified:2019-10-24 16:32:45
Access level:the public Released:2009-04-07 06:45:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29650. V. Borselli and F. Cozzini. 1992. Il recupero di un cetaceo fossile in localita Ponte a Elsa (Pisa). Museologia Scientifica 8:9-22 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

32997 G. Bianucci and W. Landini. 2005. I paleositi a vertebrati fossili della Provinia di Pisa. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali - Memorie serie A 110:1-21 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
49778 S. Danise and S. Dominici. 2014. A record of fossil shallow-water whale falls from Italy. Lethaia [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
64034 S. Dominici, S. Danise, and M. Benvenuti. 2018. Pliocene stratigraphic paleobiology in Tuscany and the fossil record of marine megafauna. Earth-Science Reviews 176:277-310 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]