Castel Arquato, Monte Zago: Zanclean, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Balaena cortesii n. sp.
Fischer 1829
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Fischer 1829 | ||||||
| invalid subgroup of Mysticeti | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Cetotherium capellinii
(Brandt 1873)
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Freschi and Cau 2016 | 1 specimen | |||||
| recombined as Cetotheriophanes capellinii | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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Balaena balsami n. sp.
Cornalia 1870
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Van Beneden 1875 | ||||||
| nomen nudum belonging to Balaena | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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Freschi and Cau 2016 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Lacépède 1804
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Danise and Dominici 2014 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Megaptera sp.
Gray 1846
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Danise and Dominici 2014 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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"Hemisyntrachelus" sp.
(Brandt 1873)
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Freschi and Cau 2016 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Delphinus brocchii n. sp.
(Balsamo Crivelli 1842)
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| recombined as Tursiops brochii | |||||||
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Steno sp.
Gray 1846
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Freschi and Cau 2016 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Cheloniidae indet.
Bonaparte 1832
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Chesi and Delfino 2006 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 44.9° North, 9.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.6° North, 10.3° 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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: whale fall | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Montezago | ||
| Database number: | 84944 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-11-18 11:26:34 | Last modified: | 2024-03-29 11:40:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-11-18 11:26:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24153. | G. Balsamo Crivelli. 1842. Grandi Mammiferi Fossili. Giornale dell' I. R. Instituto Lombardo di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti e Biblioteca Italiano 3:1-23 [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] | |
| 64633 | F. Chesi and M. Delfino. 2006. The Italian fossil record of the sea turtles. Atti del 6° Congresso Nazionale della Societas Herpetologica Italica (Roma, 27.IX-1.X.2006) 95-116 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 49778 | S. Danise and S. Dominici. 2014. A record of fossil shallow-water whale falls from Italy. Lethaia [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 18166 | J. B. Fischer. 1829. Synopsis Mammalium 1-752 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 62988 | A. Freschi and S. Cau. 2016. Distribuzione geografica dei cetacei fossili del Bacino Plio-Pleistocenico di Castell'Arquato (Piacenzia). Parva Naturalia 11:47-59 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 12817 | P. J. Van Beneden. 1875. Le squelette de la Baleine fossile du Musee de Milan. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts 40:736-758 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |