Also known as Case Bianche/Volpaie Estate, Monte Voltraio hill, La Rocca
Where: Tuscany, Italy (43.4° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 10.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Globorotalia crassaformis crassaformis subzone of Iccarino & Salvatorini (1982), listed as "middle Pliocene" by Bianucci and Landini (1999), approximately between 3Ma and 2.6Ma
Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, blue claystone and yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: G. Pilleri and O. Pilleri. 1982. Catalogue of the fossil odontocetes (Cetaca) in the Bologna Giovanni Capellini Museum of Palaeontology with description of a new species of Hoplocetus (Physeteridae). Memorie di Scienceze Geologische, Memoire degli Istituti de Geologia e Minerologia dell'universita di Padova 35:293-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48652: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mesoplodon sp.1, "Dioplodon danconae n. sp." = Mesoplodon danconae8, "Dioplodon lawley n. sp." = Mesoplodon lawleyi5
"Dioplodon danconae n. sp." = Mesoplodon danconae8 Lawley 1876 beaked whale originall listed as Dioplodon D'Anconae
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Delphinidae indet.4, Etruridelphis cf. giulii7, Hemisyntrachelus sp.7, "Tursiops cortesii" = Hemisyntrachelus cortesii9, Globicephala etruriae n. sp.9
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