Orfanotrofio: Burdigalian - Messinian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Kentriodontidae
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Priscodelphinus (Delphinorhynchus) squalodontoides n. sp.
Capellini 1878
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Capellini 1878 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Apulia |
| Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 18.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.9° North, 17.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian - Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 - Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian - Messinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44 - 5.333 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pietra Leccese | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: late Burdigalian to early Messinian, about 6-18 Ma | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified lime mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "massive, fine- and uniform-grained biomicrite" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Age is late Burdigalian to early Messinian. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Cosimo de Giorgi Collection of the Museum of the Technical Institute, Lecce, Italy. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45504 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | N. Pyenson, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-10-26 09:52:14 | Last modified: | 2013-04-16 15:07:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-26 09:52:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11919. | G. Bianucci. 2001. A new genus of kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the Miocene of South Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):573-577 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 16967 | G. Capellini. 1878. Della pietra leccese e di alcuni suoi fossili. Memoire dell' Accademia delle Scienze dell' Instituto di Bologna 3(4):1-34 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson] |