Bagnasco: Zanclean - Piacenzian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Steno bellardii n. sp. Portis 1886
1 specimen
[entered as Steno bellardi]
    = Astadelphis gastaldii Brandt 1874
Bianucci et al. 2010
Mammalia - Cetacea
Plesiocetus (Balaenoptera) cortesii (Fischer 1829)
Ormezzano and Lanzetti 2014 1 specimen
invalid subgroup of Mysticeti
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 8.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.9° North, 7.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean - Piacenzian
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sabbie d'Asti
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: upper Zanclean – lower Piacenzian (3.1–3.8 Ma) interval (Ferrero and Pavia 1996)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Feeding/predation traces:tooth marks
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:52063
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-07-18 11:42:11 Last modified:2024-03-19 11:29:36
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-18 11:42:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13952. A. Portis. 1886. Catalogo descrittivo dei Talassoterii rinevnuti nei Terreni Terziarii del Piemonte e Della Ligura. Memorie della Reale Accademia Scienze di Torino 37(2):247-365 [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]
12278 G. Bianucci. 1996. The Odontoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from Italian Pliocene systematics and phylogenesis of Delphinidae. Palaeontologrphia Italia 83:73-167 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
46337 G. Bianucci, B. Sorce, T. Storai and W. Landini. 2010. Killing in the Pliocene: Shark attack on a dolphin from Italy. Palaeontology 53(2):457-470 [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]