Gravina: Pliocene, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Plesiocetus garopii
Van Beneden 1859
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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] |