Buso Doppio del Broion Cave, layer 5 (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.5° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 11.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• The cave provided one radiocarbon date on an Ursus spelaeus rib, coming from the lower portion of Layer 1, which gave a conventional age of 29,001 ± 123 14C BP (33,597 to 32,844 cal. BP). Thus, the deposits in situ of the Buso Doppio del Broion Cave, below the upper reworked sediments, represent a time span including the end of MIS 3 and the onset of the LGM

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

• Layer 5 is a stone-supported breccia with scarce loamy matrix and many intergranular voids. Its maximum thickness is 80 cm. Loess-like sediment is scarcer in the upper portion of Layer 5 and stones are larger; in the mesial-basal portion of this layer, fine-fraction is more abundant and stones are smaller.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche of the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici of the University of Ferrara

Primary reference: L. Carrera, M. Pavia, M. Peresani and M. Romandini. 2018. Late Pleistocene fossil birds from Buso Doppio del Broion Cave (North-Eastern Italy): implications for palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 57:145-174 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197773: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Aquila chrysaetos Linnaeus 1758 golden eagle
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758 mallard
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
 Passeriformes - Troglodytidae
Troglodytes troglodytes Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian wren
 Passeriformes - Prunellidae
Prunella collaris Scopoli 1769 alpine accentor
 Passeriformes - Muscicapidae
Phoenicurus ochruros Gmelin 1774 black redstart
 Passeriformes - Tichodromidae
Tichodroma muraria Linnaeus 1766 wallcreeper
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvidae indet. Vigors 1825 perching bird
Pyrrhocorax sp. Tunstall 1771 chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax vel Pyrrhocorax graculus
Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus 1766 yellow-billed chough
 Passeriformes - Hirundinidae
Hirundinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 swallow
cf. Hirundo rustica Linnaeus 1758 barn swallow
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
Falco sp. Linnaeus 1758 falcon
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Gallinago gallinago Linnaeus 1758 common snipe
Reptilia
 Carinatae -
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Phasianidae indet. Horsfield 1821 pheasant
Tetrao urogallus vel Lyrurus tetrix
Coturnix coturnix Linnaeus 1758 common quail
Lyrurus tetrix Linnaeus 1758 black grouse