Farnesina: Pliocene, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Dioplodon farnesinae
Capellini 1891
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Pilleri and Pilleri 1982 | 1 specimen | |||||
synonym of Mesoplodon longirostris | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Eudelphinus compressus
(Portis 1925)
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Portis 1925 | 1 specimen | |||||
= ? Steno sp.
Gray 1846
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Pilleri 1987 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Italy |
Coordinates: | 41.9° North, 12.5° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 41.1° North, 11.2° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Cava Rattazzi | ||
Database number: | 45593 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-11-16 18:16:00 | Last modified: | 2017-12-06 10:35:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-16 18:16:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14641. | G. Capellini. 1891. Zifioidi fossili e del Rostro di Diplodonte della farnesia presso Roma. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituo di Bologna 1:1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
13332 | G. Pilleri. 1987. The Cetacea of the Italian Pliocene 1-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12981 | G. Pilleri and O. Pilleri. 1982. Catalogue of the fossil odontocetes (Cetaca) in the Bologna Giovanni Capellini Museum of Palaeontology with description of a new species of Hoplocetus (Physeteridae). Memorie di Scienceze Geologische, Memoire degli Istituti de Geologia e Minerologia dell'universita di Padova 35:293-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
36661 | A. Portis. 1925. Resti di cetacei (Odontoceti, Delphinoceti) dal Pliocene argilloso delle Vicinanze di Roma. Bollettino del R. Ufficio Geologico d'Italia 50(3):1-19 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |