Farnesina: Pliocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Dioplodon farnesinae Capellini 1891
Pilleri and Pilleri 1982 1 specimen
synonym of Mesoplodon longirostris
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Eudelphinus compressus (Portis 1925)
Portis 1925 1 specimen
    = ? Steno sp. Gray 1846
Pilleri 1987
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 41.9° North, 12.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.1° North, 11.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Cava Rattazzi
Database number:45593
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-11-16 18:16:00 Last modified:2017-12-06 10:35:19
Access level:the public Released:2004-11-16 18:16:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14641. G. Capellini. 1891. Zifioidi fossili e del Rostro di Diplodonte della farnesia presso Roma. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituo di Bologna 1:1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

13332 G. Pilleri. 1987. The Cetacea of the Italian Pliocene 1-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
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]
36661 A. Portis. 1925. Resti di cetacei (Odontoceti, Delphinoceti) dal Pliocene argilloso delle Vicinanze di Roma. Bollettino del R. Ufficio Geologico d'Italia 50(3):1-19 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]