Where: Verona, Italy (45.6° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 11.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• The date of the site has caused some controversy as there is a mixture of material, some specimens date to the Penulitimate Interglacial (OIS 5, Ipswichian in UK sequence), some may be a little older.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Material curated in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona
Primary reference: M. Bon, G. Piccoli, and B. Sala. 1991. I giacimenti Quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia Nord-Orientale. Memorie degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universita di Padova 47:185-231 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 43656: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 19.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod | |
Mammalia | |
Glis glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse | |
Marmota marmota Linnaeus 1758 Alpine marmot | |
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse | |
Dinaromys bogdanovi, Arvicola sp., Microtus nivalis, Microtus sp., Microtus agrestis, Microtus arvalis, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes, Allophaiomys sp.
Dinaromys bogdanovi vole
Arvicola sp. Lacépède 1799 vole
Microtus nivalis vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus agrestis Linnaeus 1761 field vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole
Allophaiomys sp. Kormos 1932 vole | |
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew | |
Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758 mole | |
Cervus elephas deer
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
Capra sp. Linnaeus 1758 goat
Capra ibex Linnaeus 1758 Alpine ibex
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox
Rupicapra rupicapra Linnaeus 1758 chamois | |
Panthera sp. Oken 1816 cat
Panthera cf. pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
Gulo gulo Linnaeus 1758 wolverine
Martes sp. Frisch 1775 marten
Martes martes Linnaeus 1758 European pine marten
Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758 European polecat | |
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear
Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear | |
Reptilia | |
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird |