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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Sus domesticus pig
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Ovis aries Linnaeus 1758 domestic sheep |