Where: Verona, Italy (46.0° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 11.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• The material has been looked at briefly by a number of authors, but the assemblage was not systematically collected and therefore a secure date cannot be applied, other than stating that it is a Middle Pleistocene assemblage.
Environment/lithology: fissure fill
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: The majority of the material is curated in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona.
Primary reference: M. Bon, G. Piccoli, and B. Sala. 1991. I giacimenti Quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia Nord-Orientale. Memorie degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universita di Padova 47:185-231 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 43664: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 20.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
"Anas boschas" = Anas platyrhynchos
"Anas boschas" = Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758 mallard | |
Mammalia | |
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis, Elephas sp., "Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth Elephas meridionalis cromerensis
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant | |
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine | |
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Stephanorhinus mercki rhinoceros | |
Sus priscus pig
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Megaloceros euryceros Irish elk
Dama somonensis Cuvier 1800 fallow deer
Dama dama Linnaeus 1758 fallow deer
Cervus elephas deer
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 ox | |
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
Lepus europaeus Pallas 1778 European hare | |
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole
Arvicola praeceptor vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole |