Where: Vicenza, Italy (45.6° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 11.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Mixed fauna, some is ?Late Middle Pleistocene (entered separately). Earlier publications have listed Holocene fauna, these are entered here.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: The fauna is fairly heterogeneous, and mixed. The specimens have not always been collected according to correct methods. Specimens are in a variety of collections, most are in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona and the Museo di Paleontologia dell'Univesita di Padova.
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 43667: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 20.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Glis glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse | |
Rattus norvegicus, "Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout 1769 brown rat | |
"Cavia cobaya" = Cavia porcellus
"Cavia cobaya" = Cavia porcellus Linnaeus 1758 guinea pig | |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole | |
Crocidura aranea white-toothed shrew |