Also known as Is Mirrionis
Where: Cagliari, Italy (39.2° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 4.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Calcari di Cagliari Formation), Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Tramezzario lithofacies in the Calcari di Cagliari Formation; upper Tortonian–lower Messinian (~10–7 Ma) (Zoboli et al. 2019)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Capellini. 1890. Sul coccodrilliano garialoide (Tomistoma calaritanus) scoperto nella collina di Cagliari nel 1868. Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Serie 4 6:149-151 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144558: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.05.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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? Testudines indet.2 Batsch 1788 turtle ?Testudines indet. The specimen is currently lost and was originally referred to as an iliac bone of Trionyx by Comaschi Caria (see pl. I, Figures 3-4 in Comaschi Caria 1959).
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Procyclanorbis sardus n. sp.1
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Cheloniidae indet.2 Bonaparte 1832 sea turtle A cranium (Figure 13a) and a partial left hyo-hypoplastron (Figure 13b), probably destroyed during WWII.
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Crocodylia indet.3 crocodilian MGPT-PU 17332/1, MGPT-PU 17332/2, MGPT-PU 17332/3, MGPT-PU 17332/4, MGPT-PU 17332/5, MGPT-PU 17331/1, MGPT-PU 17331/2
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Crocodylus caralitanus n. sp.
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