Iola: Burdigalian - Messinian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Tomistoma lyceense n. sp.
(Costa 1864)
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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] |