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Uno scheletro di Sirenia rinvenuto a Cessaniti (Calabria, Italia).
Bol. Gruppo Paleontologico Tropeano 3: 2-10. 7 figs. Jan. 1997.
–Engl. summ. Reports a large adult partial skeleton of Metaxytherium medium from the Tortonian (Late Mioc.) of Italy, and summarizes previous Italian occurrences of the species.
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Carone, Giuseppe
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Metaxytherium medium (Desmarest) 1822 (Dugongidae, Sirenia, Mammalia), delle arenarie tortoniane di Cessaniti (Calabria, Italia).
Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Museo Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano 137(I-II): 91-100. 1 tab. 6 figs. Sept. 1997.
–Engl. summ. Reports a mandible with right and left M/2 from Late Miocene rocks in Calabria.
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2001 |
I fossili e la storia della vita a Tropea. In: G. Carone et al., Pianeta Tropea: materiali per una storia urbana e territoriale.
Assoc. Socio-culturale Anthropos, Atti del 1. Seminario di Studi Tropeani (1995) (104 pp.): 32-38. 3 figs. May 2001.
–Also published under the imprint of Qualecultura (Jaca Book), Vibo Valentia, Italy.
Locates specimens of Metaxytherium medium in the stratigraphic section at Cava Gentile (34), and illustrates the head of the mounted skeleton described by Moncharmont Zei & Moncharmont (1987) (36).
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Carone, Giuseppe; Domning, Daryl Paul
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2007 |
Metaxytherium serresii (Mammalia: Sirenia): new pre-Pliocene record, and implications for Mediterranean paleoecology before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
Bol. Soc. Pal. Ital. 46(1): 55-92. 16 tabs. 3 figs. 13 pls. Aug. 31, 2007.
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Bianucci, Giovanni; Carone, Giuseppe; Domning, Daryl Paul; Landini, Walter; Rook, Lorenzo; Sorbi, Silvia
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Peri-Messinian dwarfing in Mediterranean Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Sirenia): evidence of habitat degradation related to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. In: N.T. Boaz, A. El-Arnauti, P. Pavlakis, & M.J. Salem (eds.), Circum-Mediterranean geology and biotic evolution during the Neogene Period: the perspective from Libya.
Garyounis Scientific Bull., Special Issue 5: 145-157. 4 tabs. 1 fig.
–Summ.: [G. Carone], Bol. Gruppo Paleontologico Tropeano 10: 3-5, 5 figs., Dec. 2004.
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Carone, Giuseppe; Domning, Daryl Paul; Marra, Antonella Cinzia
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2013 |
New finds of Metaxytherium serresii (Gervais, 1847) (Mammalia: Sirenia) from the Upper Miocene of Monte Poro (Calabria, Italy).
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 52(3): 187-196. 3 tabs. 4 figs. Publ. online Dec. 30, 2013.
–Italian summ. Abstr.: Carone & Marra, 2012, Giornate di Paleontologia XII - Catania: 26.
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Carone, Giuseppe; Marra, Antonella Cinzia
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2013 |
Recupero e restauro di un cranio di Metaxytherium serresii (Mammalia, Dugongidae) del bacino miocenico di Cessaniti-Zungri (Calabria, Italia).
Boll. Mus. Stor. Nat. Venezia 64: 131-140. 6 figs.
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Carone, Giuseppe; Marra, Antonella Cinzia; Mesiano, Caterina.
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First record of Dugongidae (Mammalia: Sirenia) from the Floresta Calcarenites Formation (late Burdigalian-early Langhian, Reggio Calabria, Southern Italy.
Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia
–Abstract -- 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 knowledge about the paleobiogeography of the Family Dugongidae in the Mediterranean basin. The find is hitherto the only record of sirenians in the Floresta Calcarenites. Moreover, the specimen extends back to the Early-Middle Miocene (late Burdigalian-Langhian) the occurrence of sirenians in Calabria, previously determined based on substantial material from the Late Miocene (Tortonian) of the Monte Poro area (Vibo Valentia). The paleoenvironment of the Floresta Calcarenites was a warm and shallow sea, consistent with the paleoecology of Dugongidae.
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Marra, Antonella Cinzia; Carone, Giuseppe; Agnini, Claudia; Ghinassi, Massimiliano; Oms, Oriol; Rook, Lorenzo
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Stratigraphic and chronologic framework of the Upper Miocene Cessaniti succession (Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy).
Riv. Ital. Paleontol. Strat. 123(3): 379-393. 7 figs. Nov. 2017.
–ABSTRACT: This study revises the mammal-bearing stratigraphic succession of Cava Gentile, near Cessaniti (Calabria, southern Italy), with the aim of dating the Late Miocene fossiliferous succession by the integration of mammal biochronology with sedimentology, magnetostratigraphy and marine biostratigraphy. Since the first discovery of mammal remains at Cessaniti, the chronological framework of the sedimentary succession was based on the biochronological significance of the mammal assemblage and on the biostratigraphic characterisation of the capping unit. Chronological control of the sedimentary succession and the age range of the mammal faunal assemblage at Cessaniti is now possible by combining the mammal biochronological constraints with biostratigraphy and the characterisation of the magnetostratigraphy of the sedimentary succession. Our study allows the conclusion that: i) an overall transgressive trend is recorded at the late Tortonian succession of the Capo Vaticano area, with locally different depositional trends; ii) the late Tortonian transgression was punctuated by minor episodes of forced regression, as attested by soils and fluvial deposits intercalated within the Cava Gentile succession (documented here for the first time); iii) the relative sea level rises that characterised these sedimentation patterns allowed accumulation of marine and terrestrial fossils in specific transgressive horizons; iv) the combination of palaeomagnetic data and biostratigraphic analyses, together with the biochronological constraints offered by the Cessaniti mammal assemblage, allows the assignment of the basal unit of the Cessaniti (Cava Gentile) succession to the normal Chron C4n (8.1–7.5 Ma); and v) the maximum range of the Cessaniti land mammal assemblage from Cava Gentile is about 1 Ma, bracketed between 8.1 and 7.2 Ma.
Metaxytherium serresii, 387-388, 390; M. medium, 387, 390.
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Carone, Giuseppe; Rizzo, Roberto
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2020 |
A new record of fossil sirenians from the Miocene of Sardinia (Italy).
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 59(2): 5 tabs. 5 figs. Sept. 2020 (publ. online, July 21, 2020).
–ABSTRACT: The first diagnostic sirenian material from Sardinia is reported and the fossil record of Miocene Sardinian sirenians is reviewed through an updated geological and stratigraphic framework. The new specimens are referred to Metaxytherium cf. M. krahuletzi Deperet, 1895, indicating the diffusion of the species into the mid-southern Tethys. We also state that the other specimens from the early middle Miocene previously found on the island should be assigned to the same species. We regard the holotype of Metaxytherium lovisati Capellini, 1886 as not diagnostic and consider it a nomen dubium. This conclusion is consistent with the taxonomic analysis given by Sorbi (2008) which winnowed the nominal taxa into four Miocene and Pliocene species.
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Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 