Cava Carbone: Tortonian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Rhinostodes lovisatoi n. sp.
Vigliarolo 1894
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1 specimen | ||||||
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= ? Mesoplodon sp.
Gervais 1850
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Pilleri 1986 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Sardinia |
| Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 9.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.9° North, 4.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Calcari di Cagliari | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "late Tortonian–early Messinian"
Zoboli et al. 2019: This succession is represented by three main lithofacies which are, from the bottom to top: “Pietra Cantone”, “Tramezzario” and “Pietra Forte”. Note that the names, informally adopted in the most recent official geological map (Barca et al., 2005), are derived from the names used by quarrymen (Georgalis et al., 2017). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | framestone |
| Secondary lithology: | marl |
| Lithology description: Zoboli et al. 2019: The bottom lithofacies (“Pietra Cantone”) is represented by yellow marly-arenaceous limestone with common intense bioturbation. The “Tramezzario” (or “Tramezzara”) is represented by calcarenites and marls with abundant bioclastic components. This lithofacies shows widespread phenomena of synsedimentary breccias, slumpings, erosional surfaces and faulting. The uppermost lithofacies (“Pietra Forte” or “Pietra di Bonaria”) consists of massive coarse biostromal limestones (Barca et al., 2005). MGPT-PU 17333/2 is from the “Tramezzario” lithofacies and MGPT-PU 17333/1, one isolated tooth, is from the “Pietra Forte” lithofacies. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate,replaced with phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Monte della Pace, Tuvumannu, Monte San Giuseppe | ||
| Database number: | 49399 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-14 17:50:19 | Last modified: | 2024-03-29 13:57:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-14 17:50:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26062. | G. Vigliarolo. 1894. Dei generi Micropteron, Dioplodon e Rhinostodes e di una nuova specie fossile di Rhinostodes scoperta nel calcare el veziano di cagliari. Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze Fische e Matematiche 6:1-37 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] |
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] | |
| 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] | |
| 79866 | D. Zoboli, L. Sanciu, G. L. Pillola and M. Delfino. 2019. An overview of the crocodylian fossil record from Sardinia (Italy). Annales de Paléontologie 105:123-137 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham] |