Where: Toscana, Italy (42.4° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 11.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Würmian"/Villafranchian deposits within the Rhaetic/Triassic limestone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; limestone and lithified, red, calcareous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in the 1950s
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: F. Baschieri and A. G. Serge. 1957. Notizie sul ritrovamento di fauna a rinoceronte etrusco e macairodo all'Argentario (prov. di Grosseto). Quaternaria 4:195-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 36373: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.01.2004, edited by Hannah O'Regan
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Amphibia | |
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768 toad | |
Mammalia | |
Castor sp. Linnaeus 1758 beaver | |
Lepus etruscus hare | |
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Leptobos cf. etruscus antelope | |
Lynx issiodorensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 lynx | |
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762 hyaena | |
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear | |
"Canis falconeri" = Xenocyon falconeri
"Canis falconeri" = Xenocyon falconeri Forsyth-Major 1877 canine | |
Reptilia | |
Testudo cf. hermanni Gmelin 1789 Hermann's tortoise | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird |