Where: Italy (41.8° N, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 15.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)
• The composition of the Pirro Nord vertebrate fauna put it in the late Early Pleistocene, more precisely it represents the last Faunal Unit of the Villafranchian Mammal age in the Italian biochronological scheme. From a chronological point of view the Pirro Nord Faunal Unit can be attributed to an interval between 1.3 and 1.6 My.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra of the Firenze University (VIF)
Primary reference: C. Bedetti and M. Pavia. 2013. Early Pleistocene birds from Pirro Nord (Puglia, southern Italy). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 298:31-53 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197789: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Falco peregrinus Tunstall 1771 Peregrine falcon | |
Tetrax tetrax Linnaeus 1758 little bustard | |
Geronticus eremita Linnaeus 1758 northern bald ibis | |
Columba livia Gmelin 1789 rock pigeon | |
Jynx torquilla Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian wryneck | |
Bubo bubo Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian eagle-owl
Athene noctua Scopoli 1769 little owl | |
Tyto aff. alba Scopoli 1769 barn owl | |
Alauda arvensis Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian skylark
Melanocorypha calandra Linnaeus 1766 calandra lark | |
Turdus merula Linnaeus 1758 common blackbird | |
Anthus sp. Bechstein 1805 perching bird | |
Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus 1766 yellow-billed chough
Garrulus glandarius Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian jay
Corvus pliocaenus Portis 1887 crow
Pica pica Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian magpie | |
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Sylvia cf. communis Latham 1787 greater whitethroat | |
"Anas clypeata" = Spatula clypeata Linnaeus 1758 northern shoveler
Tadorna ferruginea Pallas 1764 Ruddy shelduck
Anser albifrons Scopoli 1769 greater white-fronted goose | |
Palaeocryptonyx donnezani Deperet 1890 pheasant
Perdix aff. palaeoperdix Mourer-Chauviré 1975 partridge
Alectoris sp. Kaup 1829 partridge | |
Pterocles orientalis Linnaeus 1758 black-bellied sandgrouse | |
Vanellus vanellus Linnaeus 1758 northern lapwing
Pluvialis apricaria Linnaeus 1758 European golden-plover | |
"Philomachus pugnax" = Calidris pugnax Linnaeus 1758 ruff
Scolopax rusticola Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian woodcock
Tringa sp. Linnaeus 1758 snipe |