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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\u2013bearing sediments of Monte Solane
were likely deposited in a middle-outer platform environment, close to emerged land