San Quirico d'Orcia: Zanclean, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Tursiops osennae n. sp.
Simonelli 1911
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Simonelli 1911 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Tuscany | County: | Siena |
| Coordinates: | 43.1° North, 11.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 11.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | Other zone: | MPL5a? |
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Zanclean (MN 15), Upper portion of Globorotalia puncticulata Zone (Vaiani, pers. comm., 2006), according to Bianucci et al 2008 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: shelf mudstone | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 48655 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-03-25 10:45:48 | Last modified: | 2024-03-19 10:36:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-25 10:45:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12981. | G. Pilleri and O. Pilleri. 1982. Catalogue of the fossil odontocetes (Cetaca) in the Bologna Giovanni Capellini Museum of Palaeontology with description of a new species of Hoplocetus (Physeteridae). Memorie di Scienceze Geologische, Memoire degli Istituti de Geologia e Minerologia dell'universita di Padova 35:293-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 87930 | K. Agiadi, N. Hohmann, E. Gliozzi, D. Thivaiou, F. R. Bosellini, M. Taviani, G. Bianucci, A. Collareta, L. Londeix, C. Faranda, F. Bulian, E. Koskeridou, F. Lozar, A. M. Mancini, S. Dominici, P. Moissette, I. B. Campos, E. Borghi, G. Iliopoulos, A. Antonarakou, and G. Kontakiotis. 2024. A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth System Science Data [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 34893 | G. Bianucci, G. Carone, D. P. Domning, W. Landini, L. Rook and S. Sorbi. 2008. Peri-Messinian dwarfing in Mediterranean Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Sirenia): Evidence of habitat degradation related to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Garyounis Scientific Bulletin 5:145-157 [M. Uhen/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] | |
| 14644 | V. Simonelli. 1911. Avanzi di "Tursiops" del Pliocene Senese. Memorie della R. Accademia delle Science dell'Instituto di Bologna Classe di Scienze Fisiche 8:249-260 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |