Where: Foggia, Italy (41.8° N, 15.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 15.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vallesian to Vallesian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Late Vallesian-Turolian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; shelly/skeletal limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Freudenthal. 1976. Rodent stratigraphy of some Miocene fissure fillings in Gargano (prov. Foggia, Italy). Scripta Geologica 37:1-23 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32942: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.07.2003, edited by Juliette Richter and Marco Pavia

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