Sardinia Fossil Rodents (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (40.1° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 9.0° E)

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, A. A.E. van der Geer, and C. L. Wijngaarden. 2017. Why are there no giants at the dwarves feet? Insular micromammals in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary International 445:269-278 [M. Uhen/A. Levy/A. Levy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 214628: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Andrew Levy on 11.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Rodentia - Muridae
Rhagamys orthodon Hensel 1856 mouse