Gravina: Pliocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Plesiocetus garopii Van Beneden 1859
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 16.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.7° North, 16.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Orizzonte stratigrafico: sedimenti marini del Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:191279
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-01-20 14:27:30 Last modified:2018-01-20 14:27:30
Access level:the public Released:2018-01-20 14:27:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12275. M. Moncharmont Zei. 1956. Hesperoinia dalpiazi n. g. et n. sp. (Platanistidae, Cetacea) della Pietra Leccese. Memoire degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universitá di Padova 19:3-11 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]