Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna
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...
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ftunivpisairis:oai:arpi.unipi.it:11568/957060 2024-02-11T10:01:51+01:00 Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna Collareta, Alberto Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Bosselaers, Mark Montes, Marco Bianucci, Giovanni Collareta, Alberto Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Bosselaers, Mark Montes, Marco Bianucci, Giovanni 2018 STAMPA http://hdl.handle.net/11568/957060 https://doi.org/10.4267/2042/65747 http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1802/CG1802.pdf eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000428314900001 volume:18 issue:2 firstpage:9 lastpage:22 numberofpages:14 journal:CARNETS DE GÉOLOGIE http://hdl.handle.net/11568/957060 doi:10.4267/2042/65747 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85045010197 http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1802/CG1802.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Balaenopteridae Cirripedia Coronulidae Habitat lo Mediterranean Basin Mysticeti Geology Stratigraphy Paleontology info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2018 ftunivpisairis https://doi.org/10.4267/2042/65747 2024-01-24T17:45:14Z 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 analysis of the sediment hosting the coronulid remains places the time of deposition between 1.93 and 1.71 Ma (i.e., at the Gelasian-Calabrian transition), an interval during which another deposit rich in whale barnacles exposed in southeastern Apulia (southern Italy) formed. Since Coronula LAMARCK, 1802, is currently found inhabiting the skin of humpback whales [Cetacea: Balaenopteridae: Megaptera novaeangliae (BOROWSKI, 1781)], and considering that the detachment of extant coronulids from their hosts’ skin has been mainly observed in occurrence of cetacean breeding/calving areas, the material here studied supports the existence of a baleen whale migration route between the central Mediterranean Sea (the putative reproductive ground) and the North Atlantic (the putative feeding ground) around 1.8 Ma, when several portions of present-day southern Italy were still submerged. The early Pleistocene utilization of the epeiric seas of southern Italy as breeding/calving areas by migrating mysticetes appears to be linked to the severe climatic degradation that has been recognized at the Gelasian-Calabrian transition and that is marked in the fossil record of the Mediterranean Basin by the appearance of “northern guests” such as Arctica islandica (LINNAEUS, 1767) (Bivalvia: Veneroida). The subsequent abandonment of the Mediterranean Sea by most species of mysticetes is likely to have resulted from the progressive emergence of shallow-water coastal environments that occurred in Calabrian and Middle Pleistocene times. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctica islandica baleen whale Megaptera novaeangliae North Atlantic ARPI - Archivio della Ricerca dell'Università di Pisa Lamarck ENVELOPE(140.027,140.027,-66.666,-66.666) Carnets de géologie (Notebooks on geology) 18 2 9 22 |
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Balaenopteridae Cirripedia Coronulidae Habitat lo Mediterranean Basin Mysticeti Geology Stratigraphy Paleontology Collareta, Alberto Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Bosselaers, Mark Montes, Marco Bianucci, Giovanni Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna |
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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 analysis of the sediment hosting the coronulid remains places the time of deposition between 1.93 and 1.71 Ma (i.e., at the Gelasian-Calabrian transition), an interval during which another deposit rich in whale barnacles exposed in southeastern Apulia (southern Italy) formed. Since Coronula LAMARCK, 1802, is currently found inhabiting the skin of humpback whales [Cetacea: Balaenopteridae: Megaptera novaeangliae (BOROWSKI, 1781)], and considering that the detachment of extant coronulids from their hosts’ skin has been mainly observed in occurrence of cetacean breeding/calving areas, the material here studied supports the existence of a baleen whale migration route between the central Mediterranean Sea (the putative reproductive ground) and the North Atlantic (the putative feeding ground) around 1.8 Ma, when several portions of present-day southern Italy were still submerged. The early Pleistocene utilization of the epeiric seas of southern Italy as breeding/calving areas by migrating mysticetes appears to be linked to the severe climatic degradation that has been recognized at the Gelasian-Calabrian transition and that is marked in the fossil record of the Mediterranean Basin by the appearance of “northern guests” such as Arctica islandica (LINNAEUS, 1767) (Bivalvia: Veneroida). The subsequent abandonment of the Mediterranean Sea by most species of mysticetes is likely to have resulted from the progressive emergence of shallow-water coastal environments that occurred in Calabrian and Middle Pleistocene times. |
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Collareta, Alberto Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Bosselaers, Mark Montes, Marco Bianucci, Giovanni |
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Collareta, Alberto Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Bosselaers, Mark Montes, Marco Bianucci, Giovanni |
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Collareta, Alberto Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Bosselaers, Mark Montes, Marco Bianucci, Giovanni |
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Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna |
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Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna |
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Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna |
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Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna |
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Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna |
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fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean cetacean fauna |
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