Monte Mason, Nanto, Vicenza, Northern Italy (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Vicenza, Italy (45.4° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 11.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Late Middle Pleistocene.

Environment/lithology: karst

• A karstic fissure filled with clay.
• clay.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Site found during road widening near Nanto. The material is held in the Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara

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 43692: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Material still largely unpublished (as of 1991).
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetus cricetus, Dinaromys ex gr. bogdanovi
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Glis glis
Glis glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota marmota
Marmota marmota Linnaeus 1758 Alpine marmot
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Sorex araneus, Sorex alpinus
Sorex araneus Linnaeus 1758 common shrew
Sorex alpinus Schinz 1837 long-tailed shrew
Sorex alpinus cf. hercynicus