Fina H (Miocene to of Italy)

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

• fissure-fills in a limestone quarry

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 32969: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 21.07.2003, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Gargano fauna includes Amphibia, Reptilia (Testudinata, Crocodylia, Sauria, Serpentes), Aves, Mammalia (Insectivora, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Carnivora, Artiodactyla, Lagomorpha)
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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Paralutra garganensis n. sp.2
Paralutra garganensis n. sp.2 Willemsen 1983 otter
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Deinogalerix intermedius1, Deinogalerix minor n. sp.1
Deinogalerix intermedius1 Butler 1980 hedgehog
2 mandibles with teeth, isolated p3m1 frag., humerus, 2 ulnae and femur
Deinogalerix minor n. sp.1 Butler 1980 hedgehog
mandible broken off anteriorly to p2, containing lightly worn p2-m2, ulna
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus sp., "Microtia "lineage 3" n. gen." = Mikrotia, "Microtia "lineage 1" n. gen." = Mikrotia
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
"Microtia "lineage 3" n. gen." = Mikrotia Freudenthal 2006 mouse
"Microtia "lineage 1" n. gen." = Mikrotia Freudenthal 2006 mouse
 Placentalia -
Lagomorpha indet.
Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885 placental
1Butler 1980; 2Willemsen 1983