Where: Verona, Italy (45.6° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 10.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Villanyian (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)

• 'Following Kotsakis et al. (2003) and Sala and Masini (2007), the rodent assemblage from Rivoli Veronese can be assigned to the M.pliocaenicus zone, which is correlated with the late Villanyan and the MN 17. Moreover, the mammalian fauna is included in the Coste S. Giacomo Faunal Unit (Gliozzi et al., 1997; Kotsakis et al., 2003; Sala and Masini, 2007), which represents the first half of the c2r.1r subchron (roughly between 2.13 and 2.0 Ma) according to Bellucci et al. (2014).' - Villa, et al. 2018

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Villa, H.-A. Blain, and M. Delfino. 2018. The Early Pleistocene herpetofauna of Rivoli Veronese (Northern Italy) as evidence for humid and forested glacial phases in the Gelasian of Southern Alps. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 490:393-403 [G. Benevento/G. Benevento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206747: authorized by Gemma Benevento, entered by Gemma Benevento on 26.11.2019, edited by Matthew Carrano

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