Melpignano-Cursi: Burdigalian - Messinian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Kotsakis et al. 2004
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Eurhinodelphis sp. Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
aff. Xiphiacetus sp. Lambert 2005
Bianucci and Varola 2014
Xiphiacetus aff. bossi (Kellogg 1925)
Bianucci and Varola 2014
Eurhinodelphis cristatus (Du Bus 1872)
recombined as Xiphiacetus cristatus
Schizodelphis sp. Gervais 1861
Mammalia - Cetacea
Physeteroidea indet. Gray 1868
Bianucci and Varola 2014
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodon sp. Grateloup 1840
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Apulia
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 18.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.6° North, 17.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Burdigalian - Messinian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pietra Leccese
Stratigraphy comments: date after Mazzei et al. 2009
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic packstone
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:Cursi-Melpignano
Database number:48657
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-25 11:58:22 Last modified:2014-12-08 11:29:36
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-25 11:58:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12986. G. Bianucci, W. Landini, and A. Varola. 1994. New remains of Cetacea Odontoceti from the "Pietra leccesse" (Apulia, Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 33(2):215-230 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

64492 G. Bianucci and A. Varola. 2014. I cetacei fossili della Pietra leccese nei musei del Salento. Museologia Scientifica Memoire 13:114-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
46758 T. Kotsakis, M. Delfino, and P. Piras. 2004. Italian Cenozoic crocodilians: taxa, timing and palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 210:67-87 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
53785 R. Mazzei, S. Margiotta, L. M. Foresi, F. Riforgiato, and G. Salvatorini. 2009. Biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy of the Miocene Pietra Leccese in the type are of Lecce (Apulia, southern Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 48(2):129-145 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]