Cinisi: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Coronulidae
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Coronula bifida
Bronn 1831
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Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Palermo |
| Coordinates: | 38.2° North, 13.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.1° North, 13.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Calcareniti e sabbie di Castellammare | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The sediment embedding the whale barnacles is attributed to the calcareous nanno- plankton zone MNN 19a of RIO et al. (1990), that is, to the interval 1.93 - 1.71 Ma (according to BACKMAN et al., 2012). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 77592 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-01-15 16:31:35 | Last modified: | 2018-07-09 16:24:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-01-15 16:31:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60258. | A. Collareta, G. Insacco, A. Reitano, R. Catanzariti, M. Bosselaers, M. Montes, and G. Bianucci. 2018. Fossil whale barnacles from the lower Pleistocene of Sicily shed light on the coeval Mediterranean cetacean fauna. Carnets de géologie 18(2):9-22 [M. Uhen/M. Nelson/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 26222 | N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |