Also known as Cava Pirro

Where: Foggia, Italy (41.8° N, 15.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 15.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• fissure fillings. Late Early Pleistocene, younger than the Tasso FU, but not Middle Pleistocene, probably Farneta FU - ?Jaramillo?

Environment/lithology: fissure fill

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Material collected in 1984.

Primary reference: C. De Guili, F. Masini, and D. Torre. 1990. The Latest Villfranchian faunas in Italy - the Pirro Nord local fauna (Apricena, Gargano). Quatarpalaontologie 8:29-34 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41004: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 05.07.2004

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