Porto Empedocle (Pliocene of Italy)
Where: Sicily, Italy (37.3° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 13.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
• dark gray marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: W. Schwarzhans. 1978. Otolithen aus dem Unter-Pliozän von Süd-Sizilien und aus der Toscana. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 8:1-52 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 223703: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.11.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ceratoscopelus maderensis Lowe 1839 Madeira lantern fish | |
"Colliolus sp." = Palimphemus, Micromesistius boscheineni, "Gadiculus communis" = Gadiculus (Gadiculus) argenteus communis
"Colliolus sp." = Palimphemus Kner 1862
"Gadiculus communis" = Gadiculus (Gadiculus) argenteus communis Prochazka 1893 silvery pout | |
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Carapus acus Brünnich 1768 | |
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Gobius truncatus Schwarzhans 1978 goby | |