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)

• latest Middle Pleistocene?

Environment/lithology: cave

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: The site has been the subject of systematic excavations, yielding macro and micromammals and mousterien tools. The material is held in the Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara and the Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche di Pisa.

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 43701: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.08.2004

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