Villa Potenza (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (43.3° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• no formation listed

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Sorbini. 1988. Biogeography and climatology of Pliocene and Messinian fossil fish of eastern-central Italy. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Verona 14:1-85 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 145683: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
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Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes -
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Maurolicus muelleri Gmelin 1789 Mueller's pearlside
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadiculus argenteus Guichenot 1850 silvery pout
Micromesistius poutassou Risso 1827 blue whiting
 Beloniformes - Belonidae
Belone sp. Oken 1816
 Pleuronectiformes - Pleuronectidae
Solea sp. Gouan 1770 flatfish
 Pleuronectiformes - Scophthalmidae
 Pleuronectiformes - Bothidae
 Pleuronectiformes -
 Carangiformes - Carangidae
Trachurus sp. Lacépède 1802
 Perciformes - Serranidae
Tavania crotonensis perch-like fish
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
Gobius sp. Linnaeus 1758 goby
 Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae