Also known as Case Bianche/Volpaie Estate, Monte Voltraio hill, La Rocca

Where: Tuscany, Italy (43.4° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Globorotalia crassaformis crassaformis subzone of Iccarino & Salvatorini (1982), listed as "middle Pliocene" by Bianucci and Landini (1999), approximately between 3Ma and 2.6Ma

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, blue claystone and yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: G. Pilleri and O. Pilleri. 1982. Catalogue of the fossil odontocetes (Cetaca) in the Bologna Giovanni Capellini Museum of Palaeontology with description of a new species of Hoplocetus (Physeteridae). Memorie di Scienceze Geologische, Memoire degli Istituti de Geologia e Minerologia dell'universita di Padova 35:293-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48652: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.03.2005