Where: Italy (41.8° N, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 15.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Variable thickness from one to three meters. Age bracketed by U/Th date of 40 ka from layer B and Mousterian artifacts (no younger than 35 ka) in layer E.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Bedetti and M. Pavia. 2007. Reinterpretation of the late Pleistocene Ingarano cave deposit based on the fossil bird associations (Apulia, south-eastern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 113:487-507 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194932: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.07.2018, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Alectoris graeca Meisner 1804 rock partridge | |
Aves | |
Aquila chrysaetos Linnaeus 1758 golden eagle
Buteo rufinus Cretzschmar 1826 long-legged buzzard
Circus aeruginosus Linnaeus 1758 Western marsh-harrier | |
Falco cherrug Gray 1834 Saker falcon
Falco columbarius Linnaeus 1758 merlin | |
Corvus corone Linnaeus 1758 carrion crow
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax Linnaeus 1758 red-billed chough
Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus 1766 yellow-billed chough | |
Columba livia Gmelin 1789 rock pigeon | |
"Nyctea scandiaca" = Bubo scandiacus Linnaeus 1758 snowy owl
Athene noctua Scopoli 1769 little owl | |
Mammalia | |
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