Il giacimento a pesci e piante fossili dell'Eocene inferiore di Monte Solane (Verona)

A new fossiliferous site with marine fishes and plants was recently discovered at Monte Solane (Verona Province, Veneto region, northern Italy). At least nine previously undescribed teleost fish taxa, most of them represented by mesopelagic fishes, were found. The stomiiform Gonostomatidae gen. indet. cf. Scopeloides strongly dominates the assemblage. Based on calcareous nannoplankton and larger foraminifera content, the Monte Solane beds are ascribed to the lower Eocene (upper Ypresian). The fish-bearing sediments of Monte Solane were likely deposited in a middle-outer platform environment, close to emerged land.