Sarzanello, Val di Magra, Northern Tuscany (Pliocene to of Italy)

Where: Tuscany, Italy (44.1° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Ruscinian to Ruscinian (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Originally thought to be Miocene, but subsequently assigned to the Pliocene, to the Ruscinian or Lower Villafranchian (MN 15 -16).

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lignite

• Fossils from a lignite layer within a lacustrine basin.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: First published by Del Campana (1910) and Capellxni (1913).

Primary reference: T. Kotsakis. 1986. Elementi di paleobiogeographia dei mammiferi Terziari dell Italia. Hystrix 1:25-68 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49353: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 14.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp.
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus sp.
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758 pig
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus arvernensis
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 tapir
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus sp.
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841 rhinoceros