Where: Italy (46.1° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 11.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Libano Sandstone Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• age is from Bianucci and Landini (2002), Geobios Memoire special no. 24
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: G. Dal Piaz. 1916. Gli Odontoceti del Miocene Bellunese, Parte Prima: Rassegna storica e studio stratigrafico. Memoirie dell'Instituto geologico della R. Università di Padova 5:1-25 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 47623: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae | |
Sabal lamanonis palm | |
Pinopsida | |
Pinus saturnii pine
Pinus lardyana Heer 1855 pine | |
Bivalvia | |
Pecten northamptoni scallop | |
Reptilia | |
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Mammalia | |
Rhinoceros cf. aurelianensis one-horned rhinoceros | |
"Eoplatanista italica n. gen. n. sp." = Eoplatanista italica6, "Schizodelphis brachycephalus n. sp." = Eoplatanista italica12, "Zignodelphis miocaenus n. gen. n. sp." = Eoplatanista miocaenus14, "Cyrtodelphis gresalensis n. sp." = Eoplatanista gresalensis3, "Schizodelphis yablokovi n. sp." = Eoplatanista gresalensis13
"Schizodelphis yablokovi n. sp." = Eoplatanista gresalensis13 Dal Piaz 1916 toothed whale [entered as Schizodelphis yablakovi]
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Squalodelphis fabianii n. gen. n. sp.7
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Squalodon peregrinus n. sp.8, Squalodon bellunensis10, Squalodon bariensis1, "Pachyodon catulli n. sp." = Squalodon catulli11
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"Acrodelphis ombonii" = Dalpiazina ombonii2
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"Eurhinodelphis bellunensis n. sp." = Mycteriacetus bellunensis12, Ziphiodelphis abeli2, "Eurhinodelphis sigmoideus n. sp." = Ziphiodelphis sigmoideus12, Schizodelphis sulcatus12
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"Scaldicetus bolzanensis" = Idiorophus bolzanensis5
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Scaldicetus bellunensis n. sp.12
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Actinopteri | |
"Chrysophrys cf. cincta" = Otolithus (Chrysophris)2
"Chrysophrys cf. cincta" = Otolithus (Chrysophris)2 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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"Notidanus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius2
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"Oxyrhina desori" = Isurus oxyrinchus2, "Oxyrhina hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis2, "Odontaspis contortidens" = Lamna contortidens2
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"Odontaspis cuspidata" = Araloselachus cuspidatus2
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon2
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon2 Agassiz 1835 megalodon Given Aquitanian age, the sp has to be C. chubutensis (subauriculatus). See Pimiento et al. 2013 for details on the assignments of this chronospecies
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