SpringerLink
Log in

The Rich Palaeontological Heritage of SW Sardinia (Italy), a Possible Resource for a Geotourism Development

  • Original Article
  • Published:
Geoheritage Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This paper overviews the rich and various palaeontological heritage of SW Sardinia (Italy). The most relevant fossiliferous localities were identified through accurate bibliographic research and evaluated based on their scientific and historical relevance and/or by means of field surveys. A hundred localities were selected and grouped into six areas where geotourism routes based on palaeontological heritage can be designed. Since the 1800s, Sardinia has been involved in scientific studies dedicated to the knowledge of its geology and palaeontology. One of the most studied areas is the Sulcis-Iglesiente, a territory with a long mining history. The revaluation of the former Serbariu coal mine of Carbonia as geo-palaeontological museum (“Sulcitan Palaeo-environment Museum—Edouard Alfred Martel”) contributes to the promotion of the local geoheritage, and it is now considered one of the most important scientific museums of Sardinia. Finally, a series of geo-palaeontological routes starting from this museum are herein proposed to enhance cultural tourism and the socioeconomic growth in this territory.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
EUR 32.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or Ebook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
Fig. 12
Fig. 13
Fig. 14
Fig. 15
Fig. 16

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Abbazzi A, Angelone C, Arca M, Barisone G, Bedetti C, Delfino M, Kotsakis T, Marcolini F, Palombo MR, Pavia M, Piras P, Rook L, Torre D, Tuveri C, Valli AMF, Wilkens B (2004) Plio-Pleistocene fossil vertebrates of Monte Tuttavista (Orosei, Eastern Sardinia, Italy), an overview. Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr 110:681–706

    Google Scholar 

  • Abbazzi L, Delfino M, Gallai G, Trebini L, Rook L (2008) New data on the vertebrate assemblage of Fiume Santo (North-West Sardinia, Italy), and overview on the late Miocene Tusco-Sardinian palaeobioprovince. Palaeontology 51:425–451

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Acconci L (1881) Sopra alcune ossa fossili di Elefante rinvenute nel Quaternario della zona di Morimenta in Sardegna. Proc Verb Soc Tosc Sc Nat 2:266–267

    Google Scholar 

  • Agus M, Pecorini G (1978) Livelli a Carofite nel carbone della “prima vena” della miniera di Seruci e nel Cixerri. Rend Ass Min Sarda 84:43–65

    Google Scholar 

  • Azzaroli A (1946) La scimmia fossile della Sardegna. Riv Sc Preist 1:68–76

    Google Scholar 

  • Barca S, Costamagna LG (1997) Compressiva “Alpine” tectonics in Western Sardinia (Italy): geodynamic consequences. C R Acad Sci Paris 325:791–797

    Google Scholar 

  • Barca S, Costamagna LG (2003) The Upper Carboniferous S. Giorgio succession (Iglesiente, SW Sardinia): stratigraphy, depositional setting and evolution of a late to post-Variscan molassic basin. Boll Soc Geol Ital, Spec Issue 2:89–98

    Google Scholar 

  • Barroso-Barcenilla F, Alcalde Fuentes MR, Audije Gil J, Berrocal-Casero M, Callapez PM, Ozkaya de Juanas S, Pérez Valera JA, dos Santos V, Segura M (2022) Discovering a project for the development of geotourism in rural areas: the Palaeontological and Archaeological Interpretation Centre of Tamajón (CIPAT, Guadalajara, Spain). Land 11(3):444. https://doi.org/10.3390/land1103044

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baucon A, Corradini C, Floris M, Briguglio A, Cabella R, Campomenosi N, Piazza M, Corriga MG (2020) Life in near-anoxic conditions: a case study of the ichnology and infaunal ecology of Silurian graptolitic black shales from Sardinia, Italy. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109889

  • Beretic N, Plaisant A (2019) Setting the methodological framework for accessibility in geo-mining heritage settings an ongoing study of Iglesiente area (Sardinia, Italy). Sustainability 1:3556. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133556

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Berrocal-Casero M, Arribas M, Joaquín Moratalla J (2018) Didactic and divulgative resources of the Middle Triassic vertebrate tracksite of Los Arroturos (Province of Guadalajara, Spain). Geoheritage 10:375–384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-017-0244-1

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Boldrini R, Palombo MR, Iacumin P, Melis RT (2010) The Middle Pleistocene fossiliferous sequence of Grotta dei Fiori (Sardinia, Italy): multidisciplinary analysis. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 49(2):123–134

    Google Scholar 

  • Borghi E, Stara P (2016) I cidaroidi (Echinoidea) del Miocene Inferiore-Medio dell’Emilia Romagna e di San Marino. Parva Naturalia 11:13–45

    Google Scholar 

  • Bornemann JC (1882) Sur la classification des formations stratifiées anciennes de l’Ile de Sardaigne. C. R. Ilème Congr Geol Internat 26(2):221–232

  • Bornemann JC (1883) Palaeontologisches aus dem Cambrischen gebiete von Canalgrande in Sardinien. Zeitchr Detusch Geol Ges 35:270–274

    Google Scholar 

  • Bornemann JC (1886) Die Versteinerungen des Cambrichen Schistensystems der Insel Sardinien. Nova Acta Ksl Leop-Carol Deutsch Akad Naturforch 51(1):1–149

    Google Scholar 

  • Bornemann JC (1891) Die Versteinerungen des Cambrichen Schichtensystem der Insel Sardinien. Zweite Abtheilung Nova Acta Ksl Leop-Carol Deutsch Akad Naturforch 56:1–101

    Google Scholar 

  • Bosco C (1902) Il Lophiodon sardus (n. sp.) delle ligniti di Terras de Collu (Sardegna). Rend Accad Lincei 5:178–182

    Google Scholar 

  • Cappetta H, Thaler L (1974) Présence de poissons Characidae, caractéristiques de l’Eocène inférieur européen, dans la formation lignitifère de la Sardigne. Rend Fac Sc Univ Cagliari 43:69–71

    Google Scholar 

  • Carmignani L, Oggiano G, Barca S, Conti P, Salvadori I, Eltrudis A, Funedda A, Pasci S (2001) Geologia della Sardegna (note illustrative della Carta Geologica della Sardegna a scala 1:200.000). Mem Des Carta Geol Ita, Serv Geol Ita 60:1–283

    Google Scholar 

  • Chabrier G, Fourcade E, Jaffrezo M (1975) Sur le Crétacé du Sud-Ouest de la Sardaigne. CR Soc Géol France 15:131–134

    Google Scholar 

  • Cobos A, Alcalá L (2018) Palaeontological heritage as a resource for promoting geotourism in the rural setting: El Castellar (Teruel, Spain). Geoheritage 10:405–414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-017-0248-x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cobos A, Alcalá L, Royo-Torres R (2020) The Dinosaur Route in El Castellar (Teruel, Spain): palaeontology as a factor of territorial development and scientific education in a sparsely inhabited area. Geoheritage 12:52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-020-00474-3

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cocco F, Oggiano G, Funedda A, Loi A, Casini L (2018) Stratigraphic, magmatic and structural features of Ordovician tectonics in Sardinia (Italy): a review. J Iber Geol 44:619–639. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-018-0075-1

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cocozza T (1967) Il Permo-Carbonifero del bacino di San Giorgio (Iglesiente, Sardegna sud-occidentale). Mem Soc Geol Ital 6:607–642

    Google Scholar 

  • Cocozza T, Decandia FA, Gandin A (1986) Studio geologico stratigrafico e paleogeografico del bacino carbonifero del Sulcis, nel programma di ricerche minerarie di base. Convenzione Società Carbosulcis e Università di Siena, Relazione inedita, 1–88

  • Columbu S, Garau AM, Lugliè C (2019) Geochemical characterisation of pozzolanic obsidian glasses used in the ancient mortars of Nora Roman theatre (Sardinia, Italy): provenance of raw materials and historical–archaeological implications. Archaeol Anthropol Sci 11:2121–2150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0658-y

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Columbu S, Gaviano E, Costamagna LG, Fancello D (2021) Mineralogical-petrographic and physical-mechanical features of the construction stones in Punic and Roman temples of Antas (SW Sardinia, Italy): provenance of the raw materials and conservation state. Minerals 11(9):964. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11090964

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Comaschi Caria I (1953) L’Amphitragulus boulangeri Pomel primo Mammifero terrestre segnalato nel Miocene della Sardegna. Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr 59:1–6

    Google Scholar 

  • Comaschi Caria I (1955a) Resti di cervidi nel Quaternario di Porto Vesme. Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr 61(1):17–27

    Google Scholar 

  • Comaschi Caria I (1955b) Il sottogenere Amphiope in Sardegna. Boll Soc Geol Ital 74:183–194

    Google Scholar 

  • Comaschi Caria I (1963) La fauna miocenica della zona di Funtanazza compresa tra le Marine di Montevecchio ed Arbus in Sardegna. Rend Sem Fac Sc Univ Cagliari 33(3–4):1–74

    Google Scholar 

  • Comaschi Caria I (1965) L’elefante nano del Quaternario di Gonnesa (Sardegna sud-occidentale). Rend Sem Fac Sc Univ Cagliari 35:1–11

    Google Scholar 

  • Comaschi Caria I (1970) Nuova segnalazione di resti di scimmia nel Quaternario della Sardegna. Pubb Ist Geol Paleont Geog Fis Univ Cagliari 8:1–7

    Google Scholar 

  • Comaschi Caria I (1973) I Pesci del Miocene della Sardegna. Pubb Ist Geol Paleont Geog Fis Univ Cagliari 11:1–39

    Google Scholar 

  • Comaschi Caria I (1974) Animali e piante fossili della Sardegna. Editrice sarda Fossataro, pp 1–73

  • Conti S, Serpagli E (1988) Bimineralic (calcareous and phosphatic) skeleton in Late Ordovician Bryozoa from Sardinia: geological implications. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 27(2):129–162

    Google Scholar 

  • Corriga MG, Floris M, Corradini C (2022) The Silurian/Lower Devonian sequence at Perda S’altari (SW Sardinia, Italy). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 61(1):71–86. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2022.02

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Costamagna LG (2000) Analisi di facies della successione triassico-giurassica di Porto Pino (Sardegna sud-occidentale). Atti Tic Sc Terra 41:65–82

    Google Scholar 

  • Costamagna LG, Barca S (2002) The “Germanic” Triassic of Sardinia (Italy): a stratigraphic, depositional and palaeogeographic review. Riv Ita Paleontol Strat 108(1):67–100

    Google Scholar 

  • Costamagna LG, Schäfer A (2013) The Cixerri Fm (Middle Eocene-Early Oligocene): analysis of a “Pyrenean” continental molassic system in southern Sardinia. J Mediterr Earth Sci - Spec Issue 41–44

  • Dal Piaz G (1929) Atalonodon, nuovo genere di perissodattilo dell’Eocene di Gonnesa (Sardegna). Mem Ist Geol Regia Univ Padova 8:1–9

    Google Scholar 

  • Debrenne F (1959) Sur les calcaires à Archaeocyatha du Cambrien sarde. CR Acad Sc Paris 248:1367–1370

    Google Scholar 

  • Debrenne F (1971) Nouvelles données sur la faune d’Archéocyathes de Sardaigne. CR Somm Soc Géol France 3–4:193–194

    Google Scholar 

  • Debrenne F (1972) Nouvelle faune d’Archéocyathes de Sardaigne. Annales De Paléont 58:12–22

    Google Scholar 

  • Debrenne F (1964) Archaeocyatha. Contribution à l’étude des faunes cambriennes du Maroc, de Sardaigne et de France. Notes et Mém Serv Géol Maroc 179(2):1–371

  • Del Rio M (1973) Palinologia di un livello “permo-carbonifero” di San Giorgio (Iglesiente, Sardegna sud-occidentale). Boll Soc Geol Ital 93:113–124

    Google Scholar 

  • Del Lama EA, de La Corte BD, Martins L, da Glória Motta Garcia M, Kazumi Dehira L, (2015) Urban geotourism and the old centre of São Paulo City, Brazil. Geoheritage 7:147–164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-014-0119-7

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dies Álvarez ME, Rushton AWA, Gozalo R, Pillola GL, Liñán E, Ahlberg P (2010) Paradoxides brachyrhachis Linnarsson, 1883 versus Paradoxides mediterraneus Pompeckj, 1901: a problematic determination. GFF 132:95–104

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dowling RK (2011) Geotourism’s global growth. Geoheritage 3:1–1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-010-0024-7

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Elicki O, Pillola GL (2004) Cambrian microfauna and palecology of the Campo Pisano Formation at Gutturu Pala (Iglesiente, SW Sardinia, Italy). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 43(3):383–401

    Google Scholar 

  • Endere ML, Prado JL (2015) Characterization and valuation of paleontological heritage: a perspective from Argentina. Geoheritage 7:137–145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-014-0124-x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fancello D, Columbu S, Cruciani G, Dulcetta L, Franceschelli M (2022) Geological and archaeological heritage in the Mediterranean coasts: proposal and quantitative assessment of new geosites in SW Sardinia (Italy). Front Earth Sci 10:910990. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.910990

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fanni S, Murru M, Salvadori I, Sarria E (1982) Nuovi dati strutturali sul bacino del Sulcis. L’industria Mineraria 4:25–31

    Google Scholar 

  • Ferretti A, Corradini C, Kriz J, Piras S, Serpagli E (2009) The Perd’e Fogu outcrop: a classical exposure of “Orthoceras limestone” in the Fluminimaggiore area (SW Sardinia). Rendiconti Soc Paleontol Ital 3(2):253–264

    Google Scholar 

  • Fischer J, Schneider JW, Ronchi A (2010) New hybondontoid shark from the Permocarboniferous (Gzhelian-Asselian) of Guardia Pisano (Sardinia, Italy). Acta Palaeontol Pol 55(2):241–264. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2009.0019

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fondi R (1980) Orme di microsauri nel Carbonifero superiore della Sardegna. Mem Soc Geol Ital 20:347–356

    Google Scholar 

  • Franceschelli M, Columbu S, Elter FM, Cruciani G (2021) Giant garnet crystals in Wollastonite–Grossularite–diopside-bearing marbles from Tamarispa (NE Sardinia, Italy): geosite potential, conservation, and evaluation as part of a regional environmental resource. Geoheritage 13:96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-021-00622-3

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gandin A, Pillola GL (1985) Biostratigrafia e sedimentologia della Formazione di Cabitza nell’Iglesiente. Evol Strat Tett Meta Mag Paleoz It 13:30–31

    Google Scholar 

  • Georgalis GL, Zoboli D, Pérez-Garcìa A, Pillola GL, Delfino M (2020) The occurrence of Eocenochelus (Testudines, Pleurodira) from Sardinia supports palaeogeographic reconstruction of the proximity of the island to continental western Europe during the Eocene. Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr 126:833–846. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/14443

  • Gliozzi E, Malatesta A, Palombo MR (1984) Upper Pleistocene small mammal associations in the Is Oreris area (Iglesiente, SW Sardinia). Geol Romana 23:121–131

    Google Scholar 

  • Gmelin JF (1791) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae 13(6):3021–3910

  • Gnoli M (1982) Lower Devonian orthocone cephalopods from Iglesiente and Sulcis regions (Southwestern Sardinia). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 21(1):73–98

    Google Scholar 

  • Gnoli M (1992a) Occurrence of eurypterids (Arthropoda) in the Silurian of Southwestern Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 31(1):147–149

    Google Scholar 

  • Gnoli M (1992b) The problematic organism Kolihaia sardiniensis n. sp. of the latest Wenlock-earliest Ludlow of SW Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 31(3):383–385

  • Gnoli M, Serpagli E (1991) Nautiloid assemblages from middle – late Silurian of Southwestern Sardinia: a proposal. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 30(2):187–195

    Google Scholar 

  • Gnoli M, Serventi P (2005) New evidences of Silurian phyllocarid crustaceans from SW Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 44(3):255–262

    Google Scholar 

  • Gnoli M, Serventi P (2009) Silurian nautiloid cephalopods from Sardinia: the state of the art. Rendiconti Soc Paleontol Ital 3(1):109–118

    Google Scholar 

  • Gnoli M, Leone F, Olivieri R, Serpagli E (1988) The Mason Porcus section as reference section for Uppermost Silurian – Lower Devonian in SW Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 27(3):323–334

    Google Scholar 

  • Gnoli M, Kriz J, Leone F, Olivieri R, Serpagli E, Storch P (1990) Lithostratigraphic units and biostratigraphy of the Silurian and early Devonian of Southwest Sardina. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 29(1):11–23

    Google Scholar 

  • Gnoli M, Perrier V, Serventi P (2009) The state of research on Sardinian Silurian Crustacea. Rendiconti Soc Paleontol Ital 3(1):143–155

    Google Scholar 

  • Hammann W, Laske R, Pillola GL (1990) Tariccoia arrusensis n.g. n.sp., an unusual Trilobite-like arthtropod. Rediscovery of the “phyllocarid” bed of Taricco (1922) in the Ordovician “Puddinga” sequence of Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 29(2):163–178

  • Hammann W, Leone F (1997) Trilobites of the post–Sardic (Upper Ordovician) sequence of southern Sardinia – Part I. Beringeria 20:1–217

    Google Scholar 

  • Hammann W, Leone F (2007) Trilobites of the post–Sardic (Upper Ordovician) sequence of southern Sardinia – Part II. Beringeria 38:1–138

    Google Scholar 

  • Hammann W, Serpagli E (2003) The algal genera Ischadites Murchison, 1839 and Cyclocrinites Eichwald, 1840 from the Upper Ordovician Portixeddu Formation of SW Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 42(1–2):1–29

    Google Scholar 

  • Havlicek V, Kriz J, Serpagli E (1987) Upper Ordovician brachiopod assemblages of the Carnic Alps, Middle Carinthia and Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 25(3):277–311

    Google Scholar 

  • Hose TA (2008) Towards a history of Geotourism: definitions, antecedents, and the future. In: Burek CV, Prosser CD (eds) The history of geoconservation, vol 300, Geological Society Special Publication, pp 37–60

  • Karsch F (1882) Ueber ein neues Spinnenthier aus der schlesischen Steinkohle und die Arachniden der Steinkohlen-formation überhaupt. Z Dtsch Geol Ges 34:556–561

    Google Scholar 

  • Kotsakis T (1985) Les Trionychidae (Testudinata, Reptilia) fossiles de l’Italie. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 24:161–168

    Google Scholar 

  • Kotsakis T, Murru M, Palombo MR (2008) Terras de Collu. EuroMam Fieldtrip Guide-Book, Sardinia, 16–21 September 2008. Publiedil Service 1–98

  • Kriz J (2009) The upper Silurian Bivalvia dominated palaeocommunites succession of southwestern Sardinia – correlation with Perunica and the peri-Gondwanan regions of Europe. Rend Soc Paleontol Ital 2(1):119–130

    Google Scholar 

  • Kriz J, Serpagli E (1993) Upper Silurian and lowermost Devonian Bivalvia of Bohemian type from South-Western Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 32(3):289–347

    Google Scholar 

  • La Marmora AF (1857) Voyage en Sardaigne. Turin, Paris 3(1):1–556

  • Laske R, Bechstadt T, Boni M (1994) The post-Sardic Ordovician series. In: Bechstadt T, M. Boni M (eds) Sedimentological, stratigraphical and ore deposits field guide of the autochthonous Cambro-Ordovician of Southwestern Sardinia. Mem Des Carta Geol Ita 48:115–146

  • Leone F, Hammann W, Laske R, Serpagli E, Villas E (1991) Lithostratigraphic units and biostratigraphy of the post-sardic Ordovician sequence in south-western Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 30(2):201–235

    Google Scholar 

  • Leone F, Hammann H, Loi A, Ferretti A, Pillola GL, Serpagli E (2002) The Portixeddu Formation in the Punta Pedrona Section. Rend Soc Paleontol Ital, Spec Issue 1:231–234

    Google Scholar 

  • Lydekker R (1891) On Pleistocene bird-remains from the Sardinian and Corsican Islands. Proc Zool Soc London 59(4):466–477

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maccagno AM (1965) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna ordoviciana della Sardegna, gli echinodermi di Portixeddu. Atti Della Acc Sc Fi Mat Di Napoli 5(5):149–196

    Google Scholar 

  • Madurell-Malapeira J, Palombo MR, Sotnikova M (2015) Cynotherium malatestai sp. nov. (Carnivora, Canidae) from the early middle Pleistocene deposits of Grotta dei Fiori (Sardinia, Western Mediterranean). J Vertebr Paleontol 35. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.943400

  • Major CIF (1882) L’origine della fauna delle nostre isole. Proc Verb Soc Tosc Sc Nat 3:36–42 and 113–133

  • Major CIF (1883) Die Tyrrhenis: Studien über geographische Verbreitung von Tieren und Pflanzen im westlich Mittelmeergebiet. Kosmos 13:81–106

    Google Scholar 

  • Major CIF (1891) Resti di Lophiodon nelle ligniti di Terras de Collu in Sardegna. Proc Verb Soc Tosc Sc Nat 7:209

    Google Scholar 

  • Major CIF (1901) On Enhydrictis galictoides, a new fossil from Sardinia. Proc Zool Soc London 2:625–628

    Google Scholar 

  • Marchetti L, Petti FM, Zoboli D, Pillola GL (2018) Vertebrate and invertebrate trace fossils in the Late Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) fluvio-lacustrine San Giorgio Basin (south-west Sardinia): remarks on the oldest continental ichnoassociation of Italy. Ichnos 25:94–105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2017.1337572

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marchetti L, Muscio G, Petti FM, Pillola GL, Zoboli D (2020) The Carboniferous tetrapod ichnoassociation from Italy. In: Romano M and Citton P (eds) Tetrapod ichnology in Italy: the state of the art. J Mediterr Earth Sci 12:29–37. https://doi.org/10.3304/jmes.2020.16871

  • La Marmora AF (1851) Due parole sulla classificazione geologica del combustibile di Gonnesa e di altri luoghi del Sulcis in Sardegna, Tipografia Timon 1–19

  • Martini R, Amieux P, Gandin A, Zaninetti L (1987) Triassic foraminifers from Punta Tonnara (SW Sardinia) observed in cathodoluminescence. Rev Paleobiol 6:23–27

    Google Scholar 

  • Maxia C (1959) Malacofauna oligotipica di età paleogenica della Valle del Cixerri (Iglesiente). Publ Ist Geol Paleont Univ Roma 95:1–18

    Google Scholar 

  • Maxia C (1963) Giura e Creta nella regione di Maladroxia (Isola di S. Antioco), Sardegna sud-occidentale. Publ Ist Geol Paleont Univ Cagliari 13:1–35

    Google Scholar 

  • Meneghini G (1857) Paléontologie del’Ile de Sardaigne. In: La Marmora AF, Voyage en Sardaigne, Turin, Paris 3(1):1–556

  • Meneghini G (1880) Nuovi fossili siluriani di Sardegna. Mem Acad Lincei 3(5):216–229

    Google Scholar 

  • Meneghini G (1881) Nuovi trilobiti di Sardegna. Proc Verb Soc Tosc Sc Nat 1–2:199–202

    Google Scholar 

  • Meneghini G (1882) Fauna Cambriana dell’Iglesiente in Sardegna. Proc Verb Soc Tosc Sc Nat 1–2:158–166

    Google Scholar 

  • Meneghini G (1888) Paleontologia dell’Iglesiente in Sardegna. Fauna Cambriana. Trilobiti. Mem Regio Com Geol Ita 3(2):1–51

  • Mennecart B, Zoboli D, Costeur L, Pillola GL (2017) Reassessment of the latest Oligocene ruminant from Sardara, the last non-insular mammal from Sardinia (Italy). Neues Jahrbuch Für Paläontologie Und Geologie 286(1):97–104. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2017/0688

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mennecart B, Zoboli D, Costeur L, Pillola GL (2019) On the systematic position of the oldest insular ruminant Sardomeryx oschiriensis (Mammalia, Ruminantia) and the early evolution of the Giraffomorpha. J Syst Palaeontol 17(8):691–704. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1472145

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Modi A, Tassi F, Susca RR, Vai S, Rizzi E, De Bellis G, Lugliè C, Gonzalez Fortes G, Lari M, Barbujani G, Caramelli D, Ghirotto S (2017) Complete mitochondrial sequences from Mesolithic Sardinia. Sci Rep 7(1):42869. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep42869

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Monterin U (1923) Nuove osservazioni sul “Lophiodon” di Gonnesa (Sardegna). Palaeontogr Ital 29:31–39

    Google Scholar 

  • Olivieri R, Serpagli E (1990) Latest Silurian – early Devonian conodonts from the Mason Porcus Section near Fluminimaggiore. Southwestern Sardinia Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 29(1):59–76

    Google Scholar 

  • Pavanetto P, Funedda A, Northrup CJ, Schmitz M, Crowley J, Loi A (2012) Structure and U-Pb zircon geochronology in the Variscan foreland of SW Sardinia, Italy. Geol J 47:426–445. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.1350

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pavia M, Bedetti C (2003) The late Pleistocene fossil avian remains from Grotta dei Fiori, Carbonia (SW Sardinia, Italy). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 42(1–2):163–169

    Google Scholar 

  • Pecorini G, Pomesano Cherchi A (1969) Ricerche geologiche e biostratigrafiche sul Campidano meridionale (Sardegna). Mem Soc Geol Ital 8:421–451

    Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL (1990a) Lithologie et Trilobites du Cambrien inférieur du SW de la Sardaigne (Italie): implications paléobiogeographiques. CR Acad Sci Paris 310(2):321–328

    Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL (1990b) Données lithologiques et stratigraphiques sur le Cambrien et le Trémadoc de l’Iglesiente (SW de la Sardaigne). Newsletter IGCP 5(7):228–239

    Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL (1991) Trilobites du Cambrien inférieur du SW de la Sardaigne, Italie. Palaeontogr Ital 78:1–174

    Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL (2000) Il Museo Civico di Paleontologia e Speleologia di Carbonia: tenacia e professionalità, ecco la ricetta del suo successo. Paleoitalia, Newsletter Della Soc Paleontol Ital 1:15–18

    Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL, Gutierrez-Marco JC (1988) Graptolites du Tremadoc du Sud-Ouest de la Sardaigne (Italie): paléoécologie et contexte tectono-sédimentaire. Geobios 21(5):553–565

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL, Zoboli D (2017) Dwarf mammoth footprints from the Pleistocene of Gonnesa (southwestern Sardinia, Italy). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 56:57–64. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2017.05

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL, Zoboli D (2021) First occurrence of Arthropleura armata (Myriapoda) in the Moscovian (Carboniferous) of SW Sardinia (Italy). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 60(1):49–54. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2021.01

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL, Leone F, Loi A (1995) The Lower Cambrian Nebida Group of Sardinia. In: Cherchi A (ed.), Sardinia 95, 6th Paleobenthos International Symposium, October, 25–31, Rendiconti del Seminario della Facoltà di Scienze di Cagliari 65:27–60

  • Pillola GL, Piras S, Serpagli E (2008) Upper Tremadoc-Lower Arenig? Anisograptid-Dichograptid fauna from the Cabitza Formation (Lower Ordovician, SW Sardinia, Italy). Rev Micropaleontol 51:167–181

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL, Ferretti A, Corriga MG, Corradini C (2009) Highly tectonized Silurian and Lower Devonian sediments at Funtanamare (SW Sardinia). Rend Soc Paleontol Ital 3(2):247–252

    Google Scholar 

  • Pillola GL, Palombo MR, Panarello A, Zoboli D (2020) The Pleistocene non-hominid vertebrate ichnofossil record of Italy. In: Romano M and Citton P (Eds) Tetrapod ichnology in Italy: the state of the art. J Mediterr Earth Sci 12:193–212. https://doi.org/10.3304/jmes.2020.16872

  • Pittau P (1974) Studio palinologico-stratigrafico di un foro di sonda perforato nel bacino lignitifero del Sulcis (Sardegna sud-occidentale). Boll Soc Geol Ital 93:937–943

    Google Scholar 

  • Pittau P (1977) Palynological investigation of the lower Tertiary Sardinia coal layers. Boll Soc Paleont Ital 16:3–14

    Google Scholar 

  • Pittau P, Barca S, Cocherie A, Del Rio M, Fanning M, Rossi P (2002) The Permian basin of Guardia Pisano (SW Sardinia, Italy): palynostratigraphy, paleophytogeography, correlations and radiometric age. Geobios 35:561–580

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pittau Demelia P (1979) Palinologia e datazione della sezione di Tanca Aru nella Valle del Cixerri (Sardegna sud-occidentale). Boll Soc Paleont Ital 18:303–314

    Google Scholar 

  • Pittau Demelia P, Del Rio M (1980) Pollini e spore del Trias medio e del Trias superiore negli affioramenti di Campumari e di Ghisciera Mala (Sardegna). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 19(2):242–249

    Google Scholar 

  • Pompeckj JF (1901) Versteinerungen der Paradoxides-Stufe von La Cabitza in Sardinien und Bemerkungen zur Gliederung des sardischen Cambrium. Z Dtsch Geol Ges 53:1–23

    Google Scholar 

  • Rasetti F (1972) Cambrian trilobite faunas of Sardinia. Atti Dell’accad Naz Linc, Cl Di Sc Fis, Mat Nat, Mem Serie 8(11):1–100

    Google Scholar 

  • Rollandi MS (1981) Miniere e minatori in Sardegna - dalla crisi del primo dopoguerra alla nascita di Carbonia (1919–1939), Edizioni della Torre 1–170

  • Schneider JW, Werneburg R (2010) Arthropleura, der größte landlebende Arthropode der Erdgeschichte – neue Funde und neue Ideen. Semana 25:75–100

    Google Scholar 

  • Selden P, Pillola GL (2009) A trigonotarbid arachnid from the Upper Carboniferous of the San Giorgio Basin, Sardinia. Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr 115:269–274

    Google Scholar 

  • Storch P, Leone F (2003) Occurrence of the late Ordovician (Hirnantian) graptolite Normalograptus ojsuensis (Koren & Mikhaylova, 1980) in south-western Sardinia, Italy. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 42(1–2):31–38

    Google Scholar 

  • Storch P, Piras S (2009) Lowermost Silurian graptolites in Monte Cortoghiana Becciu (Genna Muxerru Formation, SW Sardinia). Rend Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 3(2):239–243

    Google Scholar 

  • Storch P, Serpagli E (1993) Lower Silurian graptolites from Southwestern Sardinia. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 32(1):3–57

    Google Scholar 

  • Storch P, Serpagli E, Barca S (2002) Silurian graptolites of the spiralis and lapworthi biozones (upper Telychian, Llandovery) in the Sulcis area. SW Sardinia Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 41(2–3):97–107

    Google Scholar 

  • Taddei Ruggiero E (1966) I brachiopodi aaleniani di Monte Zari (Sardegna sud-occidentale). Boll Soc Nat Napoli 75:293–315

    Google Scholar 

  • Taricco M (1924) Il bacino lignitifero di Gonnesa (Provincia di Cagliari). Boll Reg Uff Geol D’italia 49:1–14

    Google Scholar 

  • Teichmüller R (1931) Zur geologie des thyrrhenisgebietes. Teil 1: alte und junge Krustenbewegungen im südlichen sardinien. Abh Akad Wiss Gottingen Math-Phys Kl 3(3):857–950

  • Van der Made J, Palombo MR (2006) Megaloceros sardus n. sp., a large deer from the Pleistocene of Sardinia. Hellenic J Geosci 41:163–176

    Google Scholar 

  • Wagner R (1829) Beiträge zur Geschichte der fossilen Thiere. Isis von Oken 22:1132–1141

    Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Caddeo GA (2016) Articulated skeletons of Prolagus sardus (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) from the Quaternary of Grotta del Campanaccio (Santadi, south-western Sardinia). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 55(1):81–83. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2016.08

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Pillola GL (2016) Quaternary mammal fauna from “Surconis”, Bolotana (Sardinia, Italy). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 55:193–203. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2016.17

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Pillola GL (2017a) Early Miocene insular vertebrates from Laerru (Sardinia, Italy): preliminary note. Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr (Res Paleontol Stratigr) 123(1):149–158. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/8073

  • Zoboli D, Pillola GL (2017b) Upper Pleistocene mammal assemblage from Su Concali Quarry (Samatzai, southern Sardinia, Italy). Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr (Res Paleontol Stratigr) 123(2):243–254. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/8371

  • Zoboli D, Pillola GL (2018) New evidences of mammal tracks from the Pleistocene of Gonnesa area (southwestern Sardinia, Italy). J Mediterr Earth Sci 10:173–175. https://doi.org/10.3304/JMES.2018.010

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Pillola GL (2020) Il Museo dei Palaeoambienti Sulcitani “E.A. Martel” di Carbonia (Sardegna). Museol Sc 14:7–11

  • Zoboli D, Pillola GL (2021) The Funtana Morimenta Ichnosite (Sardinia, Italy): a potential geotourist attraction. Geoheritage 13:30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-021-00554-y

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Pillola GL, Rook L (2016) New remains of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from Is Oreris (Fluminimaggiore, southwestern Sardinia). Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 55(3):227–230. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2016.21

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Pillola GL, Palombo MR (2018) The remains of Mammuthus lamarmorai (Major, 1883) housed in the Naturhistorisches Museum of Basel (Switzerland) and the complete “Skeleton-Puzzle”. Boll Soc Paleontol Ital 57:45–57. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2018.03

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Pala A, Pirellas A, Pillola GL (2019a) Pleistocene mammals from Sa Cona Cave (Teulada, south-western Sardinia, Italy). J Mediterr Earth Sci 11:15–29. https://doi.org/10.3304/JMES.2019.002

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Sanciu L, Pillola GL, Delfino M (2019b) An overview of the crocodylian fossil record from Sardinia (Italy). Annales De Paléontologie 105:123–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2019.05.001

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Pistis M, Afrasinei GM, Nonnoi G, Pillola GL (2021) Crocodiles, sharks and turtles: the urban geo-palaeontological heritage of Cagliari (Italy). Geoheritage 13:52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-021-00580-w

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zoboli D, Georgalis LG, Arca M, Tuveri C, Carboni S, Lecca L, Pillola GL, Rook L, Villani M, Chesi F, Delfino M (2022) An overview of the fossil turtles from Sardinia (Italy). Hist Biol. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2098488

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my friend Patrizia Onnis and the reviewers for comments that improved the quality of the manuscript.

Funding

The research was supported by grants P.O.R. Sardegna F.S.E. 2014–2020—Asse III Istruzione e Formazione, Obiettivo Tematico: 10, Obiettivo Specifico: 10.5, Azione dell’accordo di Partenariato: 10.5.12 “Avviso di chiamata per il finanziamento di Progetti di ricerca—Anno 2017”.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento Di Scienze Chimiche E Geologiche, Univ. Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria SS 554, 09042, Monserrato, CA, Italy

    Daniel Zoboli

Authors
  1. Daniel Zoboli
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Daniel Zoboli.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of Interest

The author declares no competing interests.

Supplementary Information

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

12371_2023_803_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

Supplementary file1 The palaeontolotogical sites of SW Sardinia analysed in the study. The sites that achieved high scores (equal to or greater than 25) are indicated in grey. Categories and parameters: PC, palaeontological (NF, nature of fossil; P, preservation, DF, diversity of fossils, TL, type localities, TI, taphonomic information), GC, geological (GS, significance, GI, integrity of the site, SP, scientific potential), CC, contextual (C, context, VL, visual contribution to landscape, AA, association with archaeological remains and mining archaeology), IC, integrity (GS, geographic situation, V, vulnerability to damage related to fossil collecting), SCC, sociocultural (HV, historical value, EI, educational and interpretation value, TI, touristic interest, CV, complementary value, CA, community association with or public esteem), SEC, socioeconomic (UV, urban value, MV, mineral value, PW, public works). Age: Cam., Cambrian; Ord., Ordovician; Sil., Silurian; Dev., Devonian; Car., Carboniferous; Per., Permian; Tri., Triassic; Jur., Jurassic; Cre., Cretaceous; Pal., Paleogene; Neo., Neogene; Qua., Quaternary. Main fossil content: Inv., invertebrates; Ver., vertebrates; Pla., plants; Ich., ichnofossils. Area: Flu-Dom, Fluminimaggiore – Domusnovas; Car-Igl, Carbonia – Iglesias; CF-CV, Capo Frasca – Costa Verde; Sar-Pul, Sarroch – Pula; IS-GP, Isola di Sant’Antioco – Golfo di Palmas; Nux-Teu, Nuxis – Teulada (PDF 426 KB)

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Zoboli, D. The Rich Palaeontological Heritage of SW Sardinia (Italy), a Possible Resource for a Geotourism Development. Geoheritage 15, 41 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-023-00803-2

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-023-00803-2

Keywords

Search

Navigation