An Inticetus-like (Cetacea, Odontoceti) cheek tooth from the Pietra Leccese (Miocene, Southern Italy)

Emanuele Peri*, Alberto Collareta*, Gianni Insacco** & Giovanni Bianucci*

*Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa (Italy); manuilrosso@alice.it; alberto.collareta@unipi.it; giovanni.bianucci@unipi.it.
A. Collareta: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6513-8882;
G. Bianucci: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7105-0863;
** Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Comiso, Comiso, 97013, Ragusa (Italy); g.insacco@comune.comiso.rg.it

How to cite: Peri et al. (2018). An Inticetus-like (Cetacea, Odontoceti) cheek tooth from the Pietra Leccese (Miocene,
Southern Italy). Fossilia, Volume 2018: 33-35. https://doi.org/10.32774/FosRepPal.20.1810.113335

Bullet-Points Abstract

• We report the find of an Inticetus-like cheek tooth from the Miocene of southern Italy.
  
• We identify this specimen as belonging to cf. Inticetus sp.
  
• This finding brings evidence of faunal exchanges between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
  
• This faunal exchange likely happened via the Central America Seaway.
  

Keywords: Inticetidae; Mediterranean sea; palaeobiogeography; Pietra leccese; toothed whales.

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