Sinigallia (Miocene of Italy)

Also known as Senigallia, Sinigaglia

Where: Italy (43.7° N, 13.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 13.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Giuseppe Scarabelli

• Repository: private collection of Giuseppe Scarabelli

Primary reference: W. Landini and E. Menesini. 1984. Messinian marine fish communities of the Mediterranean Sea. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali Serie A 91:279-290 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186577: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Maurolicus muelleri Gmelin 1789 Mueller's pearlside
 Aulopiformes - Paralepididae
Paralepis albyi Sauvage 1870
 Alepisauriformes -
Lestidiops sphekodes Sauvage 1870
 Zeiformes - Zeidae
Zeus primaevus Scarabelli 1859
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Bregmaceros albyi Sauvage 1880
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
 Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae
Syngnathus albyi Sauvage 1870 pipefish
 Cyprinodontiformes - Cyprinodontidae
Aphanius crassicaudus Agassiz 1839 nono
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
"Lampanyctus vexillifer" = Diaphus vexillifer Sauvage 1870 lanternfish
Lampanyctus edwarsi lanternfish
Lampanyctus larteti lanternfish
Lampanyctus licatae Sauvage 1870 lanternfish
Lampanyctus ecnomi Sauvage 1870 lanternfish
Myctophum dainellii lanternfish
Myctophum columnae Sauvage 1873 lanternfish
Myctophum dorsale Sauvage 1870 lanternfish
 Cypriniformes - Cobitidae
Cobitidae indet. carp-like fish
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Alosa elongata Agassiz 1842 herring