San Lorenzo in Collina: Zanclean - Piacenzian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Sphoerodus parvus
Capellini 1865
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Felsinotherium forestii n. sp. Capellini 1872
Capellini 1872
synonym of Metaxytherium subapenninum
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Capellini 1864
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Cetotherium (Cetotheriophanes) capellinii n. sp. Brandt 1873
Brandt 1873
    = Cetotherium capellinii Brandt 1873
Danise and Dominici 2014
recombined as Cetotheriophanes capellinii
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Rorqualus sp. Cuvier 1836
synonym of Balaenoptera
Mammalia - Cetacea
Rorqualus cortesii n. sp. (Fischer 1829)
Capellini 1865
invalid subgroup of Mysticeti
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeus aduncus Agassiz 1835
Capellini 1865
recombined as Galeocerdo aduncus
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Galeus indet. Schaeffer 1760
Capellini 1865
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten cristatus
Capellini 1864
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinus haidingeri
Capellini 1865
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 38.0° North, 15.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.9° North, 15.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean - Piacenzian
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: argile turchine; upper Zanclean- Lower Piacenzian (after Bianucci et al 2009)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: whale fall
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils,some genera,species names
Collection size:22 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:59273
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:N. Pyenson, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2006-03-22 16:29:29 Last modified:2019-10-24 16:31:48
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-22 16:29:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16957. G. Capellini. 1862. Balenottera fossile nelle Argilli Plioceniche di S. Lorenzo in Collina (Provincia di Bologna). Tipografia Giuseppe Vitali 1-11 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson]

Secondary references:

33879 G. Bianucci, S. Sorbi, S. C. Vaiani and W. Landini. 2009. Pliocene marine mammals from Italy: a systematic and stratigraphic overview. International Conference on Vertebrate Palaeobiogeography 9-12 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
11981 J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
16960 G. Capellini. 1865. Balenottere Fossili del Bolognese. Memoire dell' Accademia delle Scienze dell' Instituto di Bologna 4:1-24 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson]
16958 G. Capellini. 1864. Delfini Fossili del Bolognese. Memoire dell' Accademia delle Scienze dell' Instituto di Bologna 3:1-31 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson]
18857 G. Capellini. 1872. Sul Felsinoterio Sirenoide Halicoreforme dei depositi littorali Pliocenici dell'Antico bacino del Maditerraneo e del Mar Nero. Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto di Bologna Serie III 3(1):605-646 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
49778 S. Danise and S. Dominici. 2014. A record of fossil shallow-water whale falls from Italy. Lethaia [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15521 T. A. Deméré, A. Berta, and M. R. McGowen. 2005. The taxonomic and evolutionary history of modern balaenopteroid mysticetes. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12(1/2):99-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]