New monodontid fossils from Japan and Italy

[DD1991]

New papers recording new occurrences of fossil Monodontidae are available online:

 

Hiroto Ichishima; Hitoshi Furusawa; Makino Tachibana; Masaichi Kimura (2018). First monodontid cetacean (Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the early Pliocene of the north‐western Pacific Ocean. Papers in Palaeontology. Online edition. doi:10.1002/spp2.1244. (describes Haborodelphis japonicus)

 

Pesci et al. (2018). First record of Monodontidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Mediterranean Basin from the Pliocene sands of Arcille (Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy). Fossilia, Volume 2018: 37-39.

 

Denebola and Bohaskaia were long the only described fossil monodontid species from the pre-Pleistocene, but Haborodelphis and the new monodontid skull from Tuscany shed new light on the distribution of monodontids.

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to be foundhere

[Papers in Palaeontology, Vol. 5, Part 2, 2019, pp. 323–342]

citation above

[DD1991]

The monodontid fossil from Tuscany has been described as the new genus and species Casatia thermophilia in the following paper:

 

Giovanni Bianucci; Fabio Pesci; Alberto Collareta; Chiara Tinelli (2019). A new Monodontidae (Cetacea, Delphinoidea) from the lower Pliocene of Italy supports a warm-water origin for narwhals and white whales. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Online edition: e1645148. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1645148.

 

Could I have a copy of this paper?