Where: Lazio, Italy (42.3° N, 12.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 12.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Ruscinian to Ruscinian (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• The fauna is so scarce that the date cannot be ascertained - probably MN 15 or 16, Early-Middle Pliocene.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lignite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: First published by Maxia (1949).

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 49408: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.04.2005

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