Rosignano: Burdigalian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Ziphiidae indet.
Gray 1850
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Bianucci and Varola 1994 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Squalodontidae
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Squalodontidae indet.
Brandt 1873
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Delphinoidea indet.
Flower 1865
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Tursiops miocaenus n. sp.
Portis 1886
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Portis 1886 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Delphinidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Kentriodontidae
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Kentriodontidae indet.
Slijper 1936
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Bianucci and Varola 1994 | |||||||||
| two genera | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Iniidae
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Iniidae indet.
(Gray 1846)
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Physeteroidea indet.
Gray 1868
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Physeteridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Bianucci and Varola 1994 | |||||||||
| four genera | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Champsodelphis sp.
Gervais 1852
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eurhinodelphinidae
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Dalpiazella sp.
(Pilleri et al. 1989)
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| MGPT-PU 13881/1&2 | ||||||||||
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= Eurhinodelphis sp.
Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
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Ormezzano and Lanzetti 2014 | |||||||||
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= Ziphiodelphis sigmoideus
Pilleri 1985
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Tosetto et al. 2023 | |||||||||
| also MGPT-PU 13906 | ||||||||||
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Eurhinodelphis sp.
Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
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Bianucci and Varola 1994 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Miokogia sp.
Pilleri 1986
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Pilleri 1988 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
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Miokogia cf. elongatus
(Pilleri 1986)
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Pilleri et al. 1989 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 45.1° North, 8.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.4° North, 7.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: age after Bianucci and Landini 2002 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Le Saline | ||
| Database number: | 47427 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-02-24 12:01:00 | Last modified: | 2024-03-28 15:14:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-02-24 12:01:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13196. | G. Pilleri. 1986. The Oligo-Miocene Cetacea of the Italian waters with a bibliography of the fossil Cetacea of Italy (1670-1986) 1-41 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 87930 | K. Agiadi, N. Hohmann, E. Gliozzi, D. Thivaiou, F. R. Bosellini, M. Taviani, G. Bianucci, A. Collareta, L. Londeix, C. Faranda, F. Bulian, E. Koskeridou, F. Lozar, A. M. Mancini, S. Dominici, P. Moissette, I. B. Campos, E. Borghi, G. Iliopoulos, A. Antonarakou, and G. Kontakiotis. 2024. A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth System Science Data [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 15052 | G. Bianucci and A. Varola. 1994. Kentriodontidae (Odontoceti, Cetacea) from Miocene sediments of the Pietra Leccese (Apulia, Italy). Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali Memorie Serie A 101:201-212 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 64534 | D. Ormezzano and A. Lanzetti. 2014. I cetacei fossili del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino. Museologia Scientifica Memorie 13:18-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 12747 | G. Pilleri. 1986. The taxonomic status of Schizodelphis elongatus = Miokogia elongatus (Probst, 1886) (Cetacea, Physeteridae). Investigations on Cetacea 18:155-162 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 29143 | G. Pilleri. 1988. Pre-and post-Messinian Cetacea in the Mediterranean Tethys and the Messinian salinity crisis. Contributions to the Paleontology of Some Tethyan Cetacea and Sirenia (Mammalia) 19-40 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 46388 | G. Pilleri, M. Gihr, and C. Kraus. 1989. Odontoceti (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the lower Miocene of Rosignano, Piedmont, north Italy. Investigations on Cetacea 22:189-291 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 13952 | A. Portis. 1886. Catalogo descrittivo dei Talassoterii rinevnuti nei Terreni Terziarii del Piemonte e Della Ligura. Memorie della Reale Accademia Scienze di Torino 37(2):247-365 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 5944 | V. Tosetto, P. Damarco, R. Daniello, M. Pavia, G. Carnevale and Bisconti. 2023. Cranial Material of Long-Snouted Dolphins (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Eurhinodelphinidae) from the Early Miocene of Rosignano Monferrato, Piedmont (NW Italy): Anatomy, Paleoneurology, Phylogenetic Relationships and Paleobiogeography. Diversity 15(227):1-47 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |