Grotta Maggiore do S. Bernardino (Holocene), Colli Berici, Northern Italy (Holocene of Italy)

Where: Vicenza, Italy (45.6° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 11.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Holecene. The site is a large cave. Much sediment was eroded or damaged when the site was lived in, in the Medieval period. The date of the site is in dispute, some authors say the last glacial (Devensian in the UK sequence), others say there is a Holocene element. The Holocene specimens include domestic species and these have been entered separately from the Pleistocene material. The material was first published by Fabiani 1903 and 1919, and he included both Pleistocene and Holocene faunas in those lists.

Environment/lithology: cave

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The material is held in The Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara and the Museo Civico di Vicenza.

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 43690: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Ovis aries Linnaeus 1758 domestic sheep