Where: Sardinia, Italy (40.3° N, 9.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 8.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 16 (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)
• Thought to be a similar date to Triversa (MN16a), Villanyian, Lower Villafranchian.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Site has a rich continental mollusc fauna (mentioned, but not listed here).
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 49359: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 14.04.2005, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758 mole | |
Episoriculus aff. gibberodon Petenyi 1864 red-toothed shrew | |
Eliomys (Hypnomys) sp. Wagner 1840 dormouse |