Also known as Poggio Rosso

Where: Tuscany, Italy (43.6° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 11.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Plio-Pleistocene boundary, possibly the Olivola faunal unit.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Over 1,000 specimens. Site found in September 1995. Preliminary faunal report published 1997. This report announces that the material is now available for study. This site is in the same clay pit as the Matassino fauna but some 30m above it stratigraphically.

•Material stored in the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze (Natural History Museum, Florence).

Primary reference: M. Mazzini, V. Borselli, E. Cioppi and G. Napoleone. 2000. Poggiorosso: un importante arrichimento delle faune villafranchiane a vertebrati del Valdarno Superiore, di eta prossima al limite Plio-Pleistocene. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 39(3):381-388 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49240: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 12.04.2005, edited by Mark Uhen

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