Riparo di Visogliano, Trieste, Northern Italy: Middle Pleistocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Megacerinae indet.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus mercki (Kaup 1841)
    = Stephanorhinus mercki
Bon et al. 1991
Dicerorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
Dicerorhinus gr. etruscus-hemitoechus
    = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868
Bon et al. 1991
Stephanorhinus gr. etruscus-hemitoechus
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus elephas
Cervus elephas cf. acoronatus
Dama sp. Frisch 1775
Dama dama (Linnaeus 1758)
Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Capridae
Capridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex ex gr. runtonensis Hinton 1911
Sorex gr. runtonensis-kennardi
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758
Talpa cf. romana Thomas 1902
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota marmota (Linnaeus 1758)
Citellus sp. Oken 1816
synonym of Spermophilus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetus cricetus (Linnaeus 1758)
Evotomys sp. Coues 1874
    = Clethrionomys sp. Tilesius 1850
Bon et al. 1991
synonym of Myodes
Microtus gregalis
Microtus nivalis
Microtus arvalis (Pallas 1779)
Microtus ex gr. arvalis (Pallas 1779)
Microtus gr. arvalis-incertus
Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus 1761)
Arvicola cantiana
Arvicola sp. Lacépède 1799
Dolomys ex gr. bogdanovi
    = Dinaromys ex gr. bogdanovi
Bon et al. 1991
Pliomys episcopalis
Allocricetus bursae
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona pusillus
Ochotona sp. Link 1795
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Homo erectus (Dubois 1892)
1 specimen
1 mandible fragment.
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Trieste
Coordinates: 45.8° North, 13.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.8° North, 13.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pleistocene.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: The material is held temporarily held in the Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara, the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra di Firenze and the Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche di Pisa.
Metadata
Database number:43704
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-23 07:32:56 Last modified:2004-08-23 10:32:56
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-23 07:32:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11465.PACED M. Bon, G. Piccoli, and B. Sala. 1991. I giacimenti Quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia Nord-Orientale. Memorie degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universita di Padova 47:185-231 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]