Pieve Fosciana, Northern Tuscany (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Tuscany, Italy (44.1° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 10.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 16 (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)

• Upper Pliocene, Early Villanyian, MN 16a, Triversa faunal unit.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small

• small lacustrine basin.

Size class: macrofossils

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 49363: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 14.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 tapir
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat