FIRST RECORD OF DUGONGIDAE (MAMMALIA: SIRENIA) FROM THE FLORESTA CALCARENITES FORMATION (LATE BURDIGALIAN – EARLY LANGHIAN, REGGIO CALABRIA, SOUTHERN ITALY)

FIRST RECORD OF DUGONGIDAE (MAMMALIA: SIRENIA) FROM THE FLORESTA CALCARENITES FORMATION (LATE BURDIGALIAN – EARLY LANGHIAN, REGGIO CALABRIA, SOUTHERN ITALY)

A sirenian rib has been recovered at Motta San Giovanni (Reggio Calabria) in the “Floresta Calcarenites”, a Formation cropping out in Sicily and Calabria and dated late Burdigalian-Langhian. Although the rib is not a diagnostic bone for taxonomy, its presence in southern Calabria extends the knowled...

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Main Authors: GIUSEPPE CARONE, ANTONELLA CINZIA MARRA, CATERINA MESIANO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2016-03-01
Series:Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
Subjects:
Mammalia
Sirenia
Systematics
Early-Middle Miocene
Southern Italy
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/6899

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