Cessaniti Italy (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Calabria, Italy (38.7° N, 16.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 15.8° E)

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• shallow marine sands outcropping

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, sandy lithology not reported

• shallow marine sands outcropping

•The late Tortonian – early Messinian (MN 11) shallow marine sands outcropping in the area between Cessaniti and Zungri (Vibo Valentia, Calabria; Fig. 1)

Size class: macrofossils

• See Figure 3. F-G: F) MFE-935, mandible in left lateral view (anterior to the left) Stegotetrabelodon syrticus from Cessaniti (Vibo Valentia, Calabria; Late Miocene).

Primary reference: M. P. Ferretti. 2008. The dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis from Puntali Cave, Carini (Sicily; late Middle Pleistocene): Anatomy, systematics and phylogenetic relationships. Quaternary International 182:90-108 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 215217: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Joseph Conaty on 03.11.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegotetrabelodon syrticus Petrocchi 1941 elephant