Fossil whale barnacles from the lower Pleistocene of Sicily shed light on the coeval Mediterranean cetacean fauna

• Published in: Carnets de géologie (Notebooks on geology)
• Main Authors: Collareta, Alberto, Insacco, Gianni, Reitano, Agatino, Catanzariti, Rita, Bosselaers, Mark, Montes, Marco, Bianucci, Giovanni
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Association "Carnets de Géologie" 2018
• Subjects: Cirripedia; Coronulidae; Mysticeti; Balaenopteridae; habitat loss; Mediterranean Basin; cetacean migrations; phoresis; palaeobiogeography; perte d'habitat; bassin méditerranéen; migration des cétacés; phorésie; paléobiogéographie; Baleine; Lamarck; Vêlage; Arctica islandica; baleen whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2042/65747; https://doi.org/10.4267/2042/65747

We report on three shells of whale barnacle (Cirripedia: Coronulidae) collected from Pleistocene shallow-marine deposits exposed at Cinisi (northwestern Sicily, southern Italy). These specimens are identified as belonging to the extinct species Coronula bifida Bronn, 1831. Calcareous nannoplankton a...