Cava Carbone (Miocene of Italy)

Also known as Monte della Pace, Tuvumannu, Monte San Giuseppe

Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.2° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 4.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calcari di Cagliari Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• "late Tortonian–early Messinian"

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•Zoboli et al. 2019: This succession is represented by three main lithofacies which are, from the bottom to top: “Pietra Cantone”, “Tramezzario” and “Pietra Forte”. Note that the names, informally adopted in the most recent official geological map (Barca et al., 2005), are derived from the names used by quarrymen (Georgalis et al., 2017).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; framestone and marl

• Zoboli et al. 2019: The bottom lithofacies (“Pietra Cantone”) is represented by yellow marly-arenaceous limestone with common intense bioturbation. The “Tramezzario” (or “Tramezzara”) is represented by calcarenites and marls with abundant bioclastic components. This lithofacies shows widespread phenomena of synsedimentary breccias, slumpings, erosional surfaces and faulting. The uppermost lithofacies (“Pietra Forte” or “Pietra di Bonaria”) consists of massive coarse biostromal limestones (Barca et al., 2005). MGPT-PU 17333/2 is from the “Tramezzario” lithofacies and MGPT-PU 17333/1, one isolated tooth, is from the “Pietra Forte” lithofacies.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate, replaced with phosphate

Primary reference: G. Vigliarolo. 1894. Dei generi Micropteron, Dioplodon e Rhinostodes e di una nuova specie fossile di Rhinostodes scoperta nel calcare el veziano di cagliari. Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze Fische e Matematiche 6:1-37 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49399: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
? Mesoplodon sp.
? Mesoplodon sp. Gervais 1850 beaked whale