Campore quarry, near Salsomaggiore Terme: Zanclean, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Kraussinidae
Megerlia truncata (Linnaeus 1767)
Bertolaso et al. 2009
Megerlia eusticta (Philippi 1836)
Bertolaso et al. 2009
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Ancistrocrania abnormis (Defrance and Hoeninghaus 1828)
Bertolaso et al. 2009
Lingulata - Discinida - Disciniidae
Discinisca sp. Gray 1840
Bertolaso et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804
1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Hemisyntrachelus cortesii (Fischer 1829)
2 specimens
[entered as Hemistyntrachelus cortesii]
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
Freschi and Raineri 2014
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 44.8° North, 10.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.5° North, 10.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of the Globorotalia puncticolata Zone sensu Iaccarino & Salvatorini (1982); originally Piacenzian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: clays
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Cava di Campore
Database number:55759
Authorizer:M. Uhen, M. Clapham Enterer:M. Uhen, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2005-11-04 10:41:38 Last modified:2024-03-29 11:27:01
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-04 10:41:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15062. G. Bianucci. 1997. Hemisyntrachelus cortesii (Cetacea, Delphinidae) from the Pliocene sediments of Campore Quarry (Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy). Buollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 36(1-2):75-83 [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]
52165 L. Bertolaso, E. Borghi, and D. García Ramos. 2009. Brachiopodi neogenici e pleistocenici dell'Emilia (parte seconda). Parva Naturalia 8:3-42 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
62984 A. Freschi and G. Raineri. 2014. I cetacei fossili mio-pliocenici conservati nel Museo Paleontologico “Il Mare Antico” di Salsomaggiore Terme (Parma). Museologia Scientifica Memoirie 13:46-53 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]