Fossilwhale barnacles fromthe lower pleistocene of sicily shed light on the coevalmediterranean 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: 2018
• Subjects: Balaenopteridae; Cirripedia; Coronulidae; Habitat lo; Mediterranean Basin; Mysticeti; Geology; Stratigraphy; Paleontology; Lamarck; Arctica islandica; baleen whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/957060; https://doi.org/10.4267/2042/65747; http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1802/CG1802.pdf

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...