Lama Lamasinata: Calabrian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenoptera cf. borealis
Lesson 1828
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Zazzera et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | |||||
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= Balaenoptera sp.
Lacépède 1804
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Zazzera and Girone 2022 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Puglia | County: | Bari |
| Coordinates: | 41.1° North, 16.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.1° North, 16.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Calcarenite di Gravina | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The sediment embedding the fossil belongs to the Gelasian?-Calabrian (Lower Pleistocene) Calcarenite di Gravina Formation. The occurrence of gephyrocapsids > 3–4 lm allows an early Calabrian age to be inferred, at least tentatively, according to Rio et al. (1990). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous sandstone |
| Lithology description: shallow water calcarenite/calcirudite sediments | |
| Environment: | coastal 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: | 201949 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-06-11 19:18:07 | Last modified: | 2022-08-23 09:41:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-06-11 19:18:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61679. | V. Montenegro. 2016. “I giorni della Balena”. Una storia per la valorizzazione del fossile di Balenottera del Museo di Scienze della Terra dell’Università degli Studi di Bari. Museologia Scientifica 10:165-171 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 61663 | A. Zazzera, A. Girone, R. Sardella, R. La Perna, M. Marino, R. Francescangeli, and V. Montenegro. 2019. Preliminary description and taxonomic analysis of a balaenopterid whale skeleton from early Pleistocene of Apulia. Paleodays 2019: La Società Paleontologica Italiana a Benevento e Pietraroja Parte 1: Volume dei riassunti 28 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
| 82461 | A. Zazzera and A. Girone. 2022. R. La Perna, M. Marino, P. Maiorano, R. Sardella, V. Montenegro, R. Francescangeli, G. Bianucci. Geobios 71:51-65 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |