Serbaro di Romagnano, Commune di Grezzana, Verona, Northern Italy (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Verona, Italy (46.0° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• The material has been looked at briefly by a number of authors, but the assemblage was not systematically collected and therefore a secure date cannot be applied, other than stating that it is a Middle Pleistocene assemblage.

Environment/lithology: fissure fill

• The site is a 'series of ossiferous berccias in a split' (probably a fissure fill).
• ossiferous breccia.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: The majority of the material is 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 43664: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 20.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
"Anas boschas" = Anas platyrhynchos
"Anas boschas" = Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758 mallard
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus europaeus Pallas 1778 European hare
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 ox
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer
Capreolus capreolus pygargus
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
Dama somonensis Cuvier 1800 fallow deer
Dama dama Linnaeus 1758 fallow deer
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse
Equus stenonis major
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf
Canis lupus and Canis lupus aff. mosbachensis.
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera leo Linnaeus 1758 lion
Felis leo spelaea
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard
Felis pardus antiqua
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas sp., "Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus, "Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant
"Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847 elephant
archaic form.
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
Elephas meridionalis cromerensis