Where: Sassari, Italy (40.8° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 5.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)
• Level V2 of Baccinello (Tuscany) that is referable to the Turolian (MN 12 or basal MN 13)
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•Zoboli et al. 2019: The detailed stratigraphic data and the geological context of the site of Fiume Santo are not satisfactorily known, however, a late Tortonian – early Messinan age is suggested by the associated Turolian mammal fauna (Abbazzi et al., 2008b; Casanovas-Vilar et al., 2011).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Kotsakis, M. Delfino, and P. Piras. 2004. Italian Cenozoic crocodilians: taxa, timing and palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 210:67-87 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144563: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.05.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian 49 isolated teeth (unumbered) hosted in the collec- tions of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per le province di Sassari e Nuoro
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? Testudinoidea indet. Gray 1825 turtle FS1995#0579, partial right xiphiplastron (Figure 9); FS IV – 139/1, incomplete pygal; FS1994#7, one shell fragment; FS1994III#258/4, one shell fragment; FS1994III#257/2, two shell fragments; FS1995III#91, five small shell fragments; FS30.01.1995RecuperoTrincea, three shell fragments; FS1995IIITrincea 142–143-144-145-147, five shell fragments. Figure 9. ?Testudinoidea indet., Fiume Santo (Porto Torres), Tortonian–early Messinian. Right xiphiplastron (FS1995#0579) in ventral (a) and dorsal (b) views. Figure
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