Pirro Nord, P. N. 2: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus flavicollis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Allophaiomys pliocaenicus Kormos 1932
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus ex gr. euryale Blasius 1853
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829
Myotis cf. blythi Tomes 1857
Miniopterus sp. Bonaparte 1837
Mammalia - Cervidae
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868
"Dama" cf. nestii Azzaroli 1947
recombined as Cervus nestii
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis falconeri Forsyth-Major 1877
recombined as Xenocyon falconeri
Canis arnensis Del Campana 1913
Vulpes cf. alopecoides Forsyth Major 1877
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Foggia
Coordinates: 41.8° North, 15.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° North, 15.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: fissure fillings. Late Early Pleistocene, younger than the Tasso FU, but not Middle Pleistocene, probably Farneta FU - ?Jaramillo?
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Karst infilling, with frequent occurrence of quartz grains - probably derived from the Apennines - indicating a palaeogeography similar to that of today.
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Material collecetd in 1984.
Metadata
Also known as:Cava Pirro
Database number:40997
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-05 08:37:09 Last modified:2004-07-05 12:52:07
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-05 08:37:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11051.PACED C. De Guili, F. Masini, and D. Torre. 1990. The Latest Villfranchian faunas in Italy - the Pirro Nord local fauna (Apricena, Gargano). Quatarpalaontologie 8:29-34 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]