Meleto, Castelnuovo del Sabbioni lake, Eastern Tuscany (Pliocene of Italy)
Where: Tuscany, Italy (43.6° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 11.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 16 (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)
• Early Villanyian, MN 16a, Middle Pliocene, Triversa faunal unit.
Environment/lithology: lacustrine
• 'Dai depositi del primo cciclo lacustre, il Lago del Castelnuovo dei Sabbioni.'
• clay.
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 49406: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
"Mammut" borsoni Hays 1834 mastodon | |
Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere | |
"Ursus minimus" = Euarctos minimus
"Ursus minimus" = Euarctos minimus Devéze and Bouillet 1827 bear | |
? Leptobos sp. Rutimeyer 1878 antelope | |
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 tapir | |
"Dicerorhinus cf. jeanvireti" = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
"Dicerorhinus cf. jeanvireti" = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972 rhinoceros |