Also known as Cava Cisterna
Where: Apulia, Italy (40.3° N, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 17.9° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Pietra Leccese Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Cisterna quarry is 2 m below ground level; early Tortonian (Late Miocene) age, about 8.14-10.5; Upper portion of “Pietra leccese” Formation (Mazzei, 1994)
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
• Museum of "Gruppo Naturalisti Salentini," Lecce, Italy
Primary reference: G. Bianucci, W. Landini, and A. Varola. 1992. Messapicetus longirostris, a new genus and species of Ziphiidae (Cetacea) from the late Miocene of "Pietra leccese" (Apulia, Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 31(2):261-264 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45503: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nick Pyenson on 26.10.2004, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
"Globorotalia acostaensis" = Neogloboquadrina acostaensis4
"Globorotalia acostaensis" = Neogloboquadrina acostaensis4 Blow 1959 | |
Globigerinoides extremus4 Bolli and Bermudez 1965 | |
Mammalia | |
Messapicetus longirostris n. gen. n. sp.
Messapicetus longirostris n. gen. n. sp. Bianucci et al. 1992 beaked whale | |
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Archaeschrichtius ruggieroi n. gen. n. sp.4
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Actinopteri | |
Makaira cf. nigricans5 Lacépède 1802 |