Valmontasca: Zanclean, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Physeter cf. macrocephalus
Linnaeus 1758
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Ormezzano and Lanzetti 2014 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eschrichtiidae
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Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Lacépède 1804
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| subspecies cuvierii | ||||||||||
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= Eschrichtioides gastaldii
Strobel 1881
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Bisconti 2008 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Asti |
| Coordinates: | 44.8° North, 8.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.8° North, 8.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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
| Formation: | Sabbie d'Asti | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: late Zanclean to early Piacenzian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: deltaic or bathyal to shallow-marine/littoral over time | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80610 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-04-29 08:39:33 | Last modified: | 2024-03-29 13:58:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-04-29 08:39:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27121. | P. G. Caretto. 1970. La balenottera delle sabbie plioceniche di Valmontasca (Vigliano d'Asti). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 9(1):3-75 [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] | |
| 27099 | M. Bisconti. 2008. Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new eschrichtiid genus (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the early Pliocene of northern Italy. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153:161-186 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 64534 | D. Ormezzano and A. Lanzetti. 2014. I cetacei fossili del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino. Museologia Scientifica Memorie 13:18-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |