Also known as Cava Pirro
Where: Foggia, Italy (41.8° N, 15.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 15.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• fissure fillings. Late Early Pleistocene, younger than the Tasso FU, but not Middle Pleistocene, probably Farneta FU - ?Jaramillo?
Environment/lithology: fissure fill
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Material collected in 1979.
Primary reference: C. De Guili, F. Masini, and D. Torre. 1990. The Latest Villfranchian faunas in Italy - the Pirro Nord local fauna (Apricena, Gargano). Quatarpalaontologie 8:29-34 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40993: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 05.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth | |
"Lepus" cf. etruscus hare | |
Hystrix cf. refossa porcupine | |
Equus cf. altidens horse | |
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Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868 deer | |
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear |