Iola: Burdigalian - Messinian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Tomistoma lyceense n. sp. (Costa 1864)
original and current combination Steneosaurus lyceense
Type (now lost)
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Lecce
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 18.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.6° North, 17.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Pietra Leccese Limestone; upper Burdigalian to lower Messinian (~17–7 Ma)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: homogenous yellow foraminiferal biomicrite
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:144554
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-05-10 21:40:56 Last modified:2021-01-08 04:42:09
Access level:the public Released:2013-05-10 21:40:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

75100 C. S. C. Nicholl, J. P. Rio, P. D. Mannion and M. Delfino. 2020. A re-examination of the anatomy and systematics of the tomistomine crocodylians from the Miocene of Italy and Malta. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18(22):1853-1889 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]