San Marzanotto d’Asti (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (44.9° N, 8.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 8.1° E)

When: Sabbie d’Asti Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Damarco. 2014. I cetacei fossili del Museo Paleontologico Territoriale dell’Astigiano e del Monferrato in Asti. Museologia Scientifica Memorie 13:25-28 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191276: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.01.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864 rorqual
Marzanoptera tersillae n. gen. n. sp. Bisconti et al. 2021 rorqual