Is Miriones (Miocene to of Italy)

Also known as Is Mirrionis

Where: Cagliari, Italy (39.2° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 4.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Calcari di Cagliari Formation), Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Tramezzario lithofacies in the Calcari di Cagliari Formation; upper Tortonian–lower Messinian (~10–7 Ma) (Zoboli et al. 2019)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• infralittoral to circalittoral zones
• off-white bioclastic limestones and biocalcarenites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Capellini. 1890. Sul coccodrilliano garialoide (Tomistoma calaritanus) scoperto nella collina di Cagliari nel 1868. Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Serie 4 6:149-151 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144558: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.05.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
? Testudines indet.2 Batsch 1788 turtle
?Testudines indet. The specimen is currently lost and was originally referred to as an iliac bone of Trionyx by Comaschi Caria (see pl. I, Figures 3-4 in Comaschi Caria 1959).
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
Procyclanorbis sardus n. sp.1 Portis 1901 turtle
MDLCA 14007 (holotype), a carapace and its mold
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Cheloniidae indet.2 Bonaparte 1832 sea turtle
A cranium (Figure 13a) and a partial left hyo-hypoplastron (Figure 13b), probably destroyed during WWII.
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.3 crocodilian
MGPT-PU 17332/1, MGPT-PU 17332/2, MGPT-PU 17332/3, MGPT-PU 17332/4, MGPT-PU 17332/5, MGPT-PU 17331/1, MGPT-PU 17331/2
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus caralitanus n. sp. Capellini 1890 crocodile
MGGC 148 (holotype)