Where: Italy (41.8° N, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 15.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• The composition of the Pirro Nord vertebrate fauna put it in the late Early Pleistocene, more precisely it represents the last Faunal Unit of the Villafranchian Mammal age in the Italian biochronological scheme. From a chronological point of view the Pirro Nord Faunal Unit can be attributed to an interval between 1.3 and 1.6 My.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia of the Torino University (PU)

Primary reference: C. Bedetti and M. Pavia. 2013. Early Pleistocene birds from Pirro Nord (Puglia, southern Italy). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 298:31-53 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197790: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.11.2018

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