Cesi, Colfiorito Basin: Middle Pleistocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis (Toula 1902)
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Megaceroides solilhacus
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Dama clactoniana
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison schoetensacki
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 42.0° North, 12.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.0° North, 12.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:820 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: early Middle Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: lower Pleistocene alluvial and fluvial deposits
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:38314
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:E. Leckey Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-04-19 16:58:45 Last modified:2004-04-19 19:58:45
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-19 16:58:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10278.5% 3120G. Ficcarelli, L. Abbazzi, A. Albianelli, A. Bertini, M. Coltorti, M. Magnatti, F. Masini, P. Mazza, C. Mezzabotta, G. Napoleone, L. Rook, M. Rustioni, and D. Torre. 1997. Cesi, an early Middle Pleistocene site in the Colfiorito Basin (Umbro-Marchean Apennine), central Italy. Journal of Quaternary Science 12(6):507-518 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]