Possagno: Late/Upper Eocene, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Prototherium intermedium
Bizzotto 1983
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Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 45.9° North, 11.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.0° North, 9.9° East |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Possagno Marl |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified marl |
| 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: | 13073 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-01-18 11:54:09 | Last modified: | 2015-07-23 14:00:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-18 11:54:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10901. | F. Bizzarini, B. Bizzotto, and G. Braga. 1977. Resti di Sirenio (Prototherium) nella marna di Possagno (Eocene Superiore). Memoire degli Instituti de Geologia e Minerlogia dell'Università d Padova 30:1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 4355 | 5% 21200 | B. Bizzotto. 1983. Prototherium intermedium n. sp. (Sirenia) dell'Eocene Superiore di Possagano e proposta di revisione sistematica del taxon Eotheroides Palmer 1899. Memorie de Scienze Geologiche 26:95-116 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
| 55870 | B. Bizzotto. 2005. La struttura cranica di Prototherium intermedium (Mammalia: Sirenia) del l-Eocene superiore veneto. Nuovi contributi alla sua anatomia e sistematica. Lavori - Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali 30:107-125 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham] |