Bacedasco (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Piacenza, Italy (44.8° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 10.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• lower Pliocene

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Freschi and S. Cau. 2016. Distribuzione geografica dei cetacei fossili del Bacino Plio-Pleistocenico di Castell'Arquato (Piacenzia). Parva Naturalia 11:47-59 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187602: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati Bisconti 2007 rorqual
 Cetacea -
Burtinopsis similis Van Beneden 1872 whale