Bristie 2, Sgonico, Trieste, Northern Italy (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Trieste, Italy (45.7° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 13.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Early Middle Pleistocene, Galerian.

Environment/lithology: karst

• The site is in a fissure fill inside an abandoned onyx cave/mine.

Collection methods: It has been robbed and excavated clandestinely several times. The materail excavated by Bartolomei has been conserved but has not been fully published.

Primary reference: M. Bon, G. Piccoli, and B. Sala. 1991. I giacimenti Quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia Nord-Orientale. Memorie degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universita di Padova 47:185-231 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 43700: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Ophisaurus sp.
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo hermanni
Testudo hermanni Gmelin 1789 Hermann's tortoise
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus scrofa
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Dama sp.
Dama sp. Frisch 1775 fallow deer
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Crocidura cf. russula, Sorex runtonensis
Crocidura cf. russula Herrmann 1780 Greater white-toothed shrew
Sorex runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Allocricetus bursae, Dinaromys cf. dalmatinus, Microtus sp., Pliomys episcopalis
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Glis glis
Glis glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macaca sp.
Macaca sp. Lacépède 1799 macaque