Reggio Calabria: Pliocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Dioplodon tenuirostris (Owen 1870)
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Mesoplodon
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Flores 1895
Tursiops cortesii (Fischer 1829)
Pilleri 1985
recombined as Hemisyntrachelus cortesii
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Heterocetus major n. sp. Stefano 1900
Stefano 1900
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 38.1° North, 15.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° North, 15.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:76977
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-12-11 14:56:32 Last modified:2007-12-11 16:56:32
Access level:the public Released:2007-12-11 14:56:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26033. G. Capellini. 1893. Nuovi resti di Zifioidi in Calabria e in Toscana. Rendiconti delle sedute Della Reale Accademie de Lincei 2:283-288 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

29503 E. Flores. 1895. Catalogo dei mammiferi fossili dell' Italia meridionale continentale. Atti della Acccademia pontaniana 25(18):3-48 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15407 G. Pilleri. 1985. Second record of Tursiops osennae (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in a Pliocene horizon of the Romagna Apennines, Central Italy, and the phylogeny of Tursiops. Investigations on Cetacea 17:11-30 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
29931 G. Stefano. 1900. Gli avanzi fossili dei misticeti in Calabria. Societa geologica italiana 19(2):281-294 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]