Where: Foggia, Italy (41.8° N, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vallesian to Vallesian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• \"...the entire assemblage of fossiliferous Miocene fissure fillings found in Garrrgano to date, represents a series of some ten biozones which can be defined by the degree of evolutoin of the Muridae. This definistion will be set out in a forthcoming paper fy Messrs. J. Michaux and R. Geesink and [Freudenthal]. For the time being, however, I may state that the majority of specimens of Deinogalerix were recovered from localities which are assigned to the highest three or four biozones.\"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fillshelly/skeletal

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: M. Freudenthal. 1972. Deinogalerix koenigswaldi nov. gen., nov. spec., a giant insctivore from the Neogene of Italy. Scripta Geologica 14:1-19 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32931: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.07.2003, edited by Marco Pavia

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