Where: Italy (42.9° N, 12.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 12.3° E)

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

• The main structural element of the basin is represented by the east-bounding Martana Fault, a N-S trending, west-dipping normal fault that abruptly separates the PlioPleistocene

•basin infill from the Martani Ridge. The fault likely exerted a strong control on local accommodation

•and sedimentation, at least up to Early Pleistocene

•time (Sardella et al., 2012, with references therein).

Environment/lithology: fluvial; silty claystone

Size class: macrofossils

• The cranium SBAU 337653 is in very good

•state of preservation, although the right zygomatic arch and

•both canines are broken. In addition, the specimen shows

•a diagenetic dorso-ventral compression...Only right I2

• and I3

• are preserved, and

•both canines are broken at the crown base...The right hemimandible SBAU 167337

•is partially embedded in a sand block, together with two

•slender ribs, and is therefore visible only on the labial

•side. In addition, the mandibular branch is broken in the

•middle part, so it was left in the block for not endangering

•its integrity...The lower canine is high and curved...The left calcaneus SBAU 337636

•is virtually complete, since only the lateral tip of the

•sustentaculum tali is broken.

Primary reference: M. Cherin, D. A. Iurino, and R. Sardella. 2013. New well-preserved material of Lynx issiodorensis valdarnensis (Felidae, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene of Pantalla (central Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 52:103-111 [M. Uhen/G. Halstead-Johnson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189026: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Guinevive Halstead-Johnson on 28.09.2017, edited by Mark Uhen

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