Cisterna Quarry: Tortonian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Globigerinidae
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Globigerinoides extremus
(Bolli and Bermudez 1965)
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Bisconti and Varola 2006 | |||||||||
original and current combination Globigerinoides obliquus extremus | ||||||||||
Globorotaliidae
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Globorotalia acostaensis
Blow 1959
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Bisconti and Varola 2006 | |||||||||
recombined as Neogloboquadrina acostaensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Metaxytherium medium
(Desmarest 1822)
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Bianucci et al. 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Messapicetus longirostris n. gen., n. sp.
Bianucci et al. 1992
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Physeteroidea indet.
Gray 1868
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Peri et al. 2020 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MSNUP I-17076 | ||||||||||
Zygophyseter varolai n. gen., n. sp.
Bianucci and Landini 2006
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Bianucci and Landini 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eschrichtiidae
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Archaeschrichtius ruggieroi n. gen., n. sp.
Bisconti and Varola 2006
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Bisconti and Varola 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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Balaenidae indet.
(Gray 1821)
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Bianucci and Varola 2014 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
original and current combination Balanadae | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Istiophoriformes
- Istiophoridae
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Makaira cf. nigricans
Lacépède 1802
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Carnevale et al. 2002 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Italy | State/province: | Apulia | County: | Lecce |
Coordinates: | 40.3° North, 18.2° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.0° North, 17.9° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Pietra Leccese | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Cisterna quarry is 2 m below ground level; early Tortonian (Late Miocene) age, about 8.14-10.5; Upper portion of “Pietra leccese” Formation (Mazzei, 1994) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | glauconitic,phosphatic lithified lime mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Geology comments: Pietra leccese is "Miocene microfossil bearing biomicrite of varying phosphate and glauconite content." Age of the Pietra Leccese Formation ranges in age from Langhian to Serravalian to Tortonian. tropical/subtropical, depth likely changed over time |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,field collection |
Collection size: | 1 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Museum of "Gruppo Naturalisti Salentini," Lecce, Italy |
Metadata
Also known as: | Cava Cisterna | ||
Database number: | 45503 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | N. Pyenson, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-10-26 09:09:20 | Last modified: | 2024-03-20 15:05:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-26 09:09:20 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11918. | G. Bianucci, W. Landini, and A. Varola. 1992. Messapicetus longirostris, a new genus and species of Ziphiidae (Cetacea) from the late Miocene of "Pietra leccese" (Apulia, Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 31(2):261-264 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
87930 | K. Agiadi, N. Hohmann, E. Gliozzi, D. Thivaiou, F. R. Bosellini, M. Taviani, G. Bianucci, A. Collareta, L. Londeix, C. Faranda, F. Bulian, E. Koskeridou, F. Lozar, A. M. Mancini, S. Dominici, P. Moissette, I. B. Campos, E. Borghi, G. Iliopoulos, A. Antonarakou, and G. Kontakiotis. 2024. A revised marine fossil record of the Mediterranean before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Earth System Science Data [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
34893 | G. Bianucci, G. Carone, D. P. Domning, W. Landini, L. Rook and S. Sorbi. 2008. Peri-Messinian Dwarfing in Mediterranean Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Sirenia): Evidence of Habitat Degradation Related to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Garyounis Scientific Bulletin 5:145-157 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
58472 | G. Bianucci, A. Collareta, K. Post, A. Varola, and O. Lambert. 2016. A new record of Messapicetus from the Pietra leccese (Late Miocene, Southern Italy): Antitropical distribution in a fossil beaked whale (Cetacea, Ziphiidae). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 122(1):63-74 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
87943 | G. Bianucci, W. Landini, and A. Varola. 2003. New records of Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Sirenia) from the late Miocene of Cisterna quarry (Apulia, southern Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 42(1-2):59-63 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
18691 | G. Bianucci and W. Landini. 2006. Killer sperm whale: a new basal physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Late Miocene of Italy. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 148:103-131 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
64492 | G. Bianucci and A. Varola. 2014. I cetacei fossili della Pietra leccese nei musei del Salento. Museologia Scientifica Memoire 13:114-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
26193 | M. Bisconti and A. Varola. 2006. The oldest eschrictiid mysticete: and a new morphological diagnosis of Eschrichtiidae (gray whales). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigafia 112(3):447-457 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
76602 | G. Carnevale, C. Sorbini, W. Landina and A. Varola. 2002. Makaira cf. M. nigricans Lacépède, 1802 (Teleostei: Perciformes: Istiophoridae) from the Pietra Leccese Late Miocene, Apulia, Southern Italy. Palaeontographia Italica 88:63-75 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
74098 | E. Peri, A. Collareta, and G. Bianucci. 2020. A new record of Physeteroidea from the Upper Miocene of the Pietra leccese (southern Italy): systematics, paleoecology and taphonomy of a fossil macroraptorial sperm whale. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126(3):751-769 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |