Ricavo, near: Piacenzian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Belyaeva 1948 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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Bianucci and Landini 2005 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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Physeter cf. macrocephalus
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | ||||||
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= Eubalaena sp.
Gray 1864
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Bisconti 2002 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Florence |
| Coordinates: | 43.6° North, 10.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.5° North, 10.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Villamagna | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Late Pliocene marine member of the San Miniato Basin. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified argillaceous,silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: This member was described by Dominici et al. (1995) as an alternata between "Argille sabbiose, sabbie argillose, limi talora con livelli torbosi" (sandy clays, clayeys sands, silts, sometimes with turfaceous levels) and "sabbie a Flabellipecten di facies marina, tolara con livelli a Cerastoderma di facies salmastra; calcari dentrititici di facies marina" (sands with Flabellipecten, marine facies, sometimes with levels with Cerastoderma, brackish facies; debris limestone; marine facies). | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Museo Archeologico di Santa Chiara in Castelfranco(Florence) and lacks an inventory number | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45480 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | N. Pyenson, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-10-25 07:45:02 | Last modified: | 2015-04-30 15:09:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-25 07:45:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13332. | G. Pilleri. 1987. The Cetacea of the Italian Pliocene 1-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 24838 | E. I. Belyaeva. 1948. Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 32997 | G. Bianucci and W. Landini. 2005. I paleositi a vertebrati fossili della Provinia di Pisa. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali - Memorie serie A 110:1-21 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 11884 | M. Bisconti. 2002. An early Late Pliocene right whale (Genus Eubalaena) from Tuscany (Central Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 41(1):83-91 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen] |