Monte Argentario: Pleistocene, Italy
collected 1950

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tragulidarum sp.
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis falconeri Forsyth-Major 1877
recombined as Xenocyon falconeri
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx issiodorensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Pardus pardus
    = Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758
Wilson and Reeder 1993
Machairodus crenatidens
    = Homotherium crenatidens Fabrini 1890
Wilson and Reeder 1993
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Bovidae
Leptobos cf. etruscus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros etruscus Falconer 1868
    = Dicerorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868
O'Regan 2003
    = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868
O'Regan 2003
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus etruscus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor sp. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo cf. hermanni Gmelin 1789
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Toscana County:Grosseto
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 11.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.3° North, 11.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:0 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Würmian"/Villafranchian deposits within the Rhaetic/Triassic limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology:red lithified calcareous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "ossiferous breccia", "red clay residue with calcareous detritus", placed within the fractures of the limestone (previous karst process). Clay is indurated with calcite. Smaller bones are found (more rarely) in a softer brown-red clay infilling cavities within this harder material.
Environment:cave
Geology comments: some "epeirogenic movement" after deposition
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1950s
Metadata
Database number:36373
Authorizer:M. Carrano, A. Turner Enterer:M. Carrano, H. O'Regan
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-01-27 11:44:08 Last modified:2010-11-08 13:15:29
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-27 11:44:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9754.5% 44320F. Baschieri and A. G. Serge. 1957. Notizie sul ritrovamento di fauna a rinoceronte etrusco e macairodo all'Argentario (prov. di Grosseto). Quaternaria 4:195-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

9580PACED H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]
7009 D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder. 1993. Mammal species of the world 1-1206 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]