Spoleto, Southern Tuscany: MN 16, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mammut" borsoni (Hays 1834)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Umbria
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 12.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.7° North, 12.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 16
Age range of interval:3.20000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Early Villanyian, MN 16a, Middle Pliocene, Triversa faunal unit.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'un deposito di argille lacustri lignitifere dei dintorni di Spoleto.' Clay and lignite.
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: 'Tale deposito appartiene ad un piccolo lago del Pliocene superiore, che ha preceduto il grande Lago Tiberino del Pleistocene inferiore.'
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: First published by Pantanelli (1886) and Clerici (1894).
Metadata
Database number:49407
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-15 06:40:13 Last modified:2005-04-15 09:40:13
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-15 06:40:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13151.PACED T. Kotsakis. 1986. Elementi di paleobiogeographia dei mammiferi Terziari dell Italia. Hystrix 1:25-68 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]