Capo di Fiume: Messinian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Perciformes - Sparidae
Boops roulei Arambourg 1927
Actinopteri - Centropomidae
Lates cf. niloticus (Linnaeus 1758)
Carnevale and Landini 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 42.0° North, 14.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.8° North, 13.9° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine 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:219783
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-21 12:08:56 Last modified:2021-04-21 12:08:56
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-21 12:08:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

76571. G. Carnevale. 2002. Boops roulei Arambourg (Teleostei, Percoidei) in the Messinian of Central Italy, with comments on systematics, paleoecology and zoogeography. Neus Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 12:725-736 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

76575 G. Carnevale and W. Landini. 2001. On the first occurrence of the genus Lates Cuvier and Valenciennes in the pre-evaporitic Messinian of the Mediterranean. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 25:73-78 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]