Motya: Holocene, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Physeter macrocephalus
Linnaeus 1758
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| vertebrae | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Murex trunculus
Linnaeus 1758
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| recombined as Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) trunculus | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 37.9° North, 12.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.9° North, 12.4° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: 600–400 BC |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 196903 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-10-12 15:34:13 | Last modified: | 2022-02-04 13:45:22 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-10-12 15:34:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 79494. | D. S. Reese. 2005. Whale bones and shell purple-dye at Motya (western Sicily, Italy). Oxford Journal of Archaeology 24(2):107-114 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 40885 | D. Bernal-Casasola, A. Gardeisen, P. Morgenstern, L. Kolska Horwitz, G. Piqués, T. Theodoropoulou, and B. Wilkens. 2016. Ancient whale exploitation in the Mediterranean: the archaeological record. Antiquity 90(352):914-927 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen] |