Where: Italy (36.9° N, 14.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• The fossil bird bones were associated in all the deposits with remains of endemic mammals of the early Middle Pleistocene "Elephas falconeri Faunal Complex" of the Sicilian biochronological scheme.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Comiso (MCSNC)
Primary reference: M. Pavia and G. Insacco. 2013. The fossil bird associations from the early Middle Pleistocene of the Ragusa province (SE Sicily, Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 52:157-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 197927: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Charadriiformes indet. Huxley 1867 shorebird | |
Pluvialis apricaria Linnaeus 1758 European golden-plover | |
"Sternidae indet." = Sterninae
"Sternidae indet." = Sterninae Bonaparte 1838 tern | |
Scolopax rusticola Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian woodcock | |
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird | |
Melanocorypha calandra Linnaeus 1766 calandra lark | |
Turdus sp. Linnaeus 1758 true thrush | |
Grus melitensis Lydekker 1890 crane
Grus grus Linnaeus 1758 Common crane | |