Where: Italy (39.2° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 7.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)
• "The fossil remains reported here come from layer C14, on top of the SC section and just below a flowstone radiometrically (U-Th) dated to >0.5 Ma (Melis et al., 2013; Palombo and Rozzi, 2014)... ?late Early Pleistocene and/or Early Middle Pleistocene." (Madurell-Malapeira et al. 2015)
•Section is five meters thick, composed of 14 levels. Birds collected in levels C9 and C14, and C. malatestai collected at C14, but detailed provenance not given.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico di Paleontologia e Speleologia "E.A. Martel" of Carbonaria
Primary reference: M. Pavia and C. Bedetti. 2003. The late Pleistocene fossil avian remains from Grotta dei Fiori, Carbonia (SW Sardinia, Italy). Bolletino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 42:163-169 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194929: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.07.2018, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cynotherium malatestai n. sp.
Cynotherium malatestai n. sp. Madurell-Malapeira et al. 2015 canid MPUR/V4200a (holotype), right hemimandible with c1 and p2‒m2
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Aves | |
Gypaetus barbatus Linnaeus 1758 bearded vulture
Aquila sp. Linnaeus 1758 eagle | |
Turdus viscivorus Linnaeus 1758 mistle thrush | |
Corvus corax Linnaeus 1758 common raven
Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus 1766 yellow-billed chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax Linnaeus 1758 red-billed chough | |
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Columba livia Gmelin 1789 rock pigeon | |
Ciconia nigra Linnaeus 1758 black stork |