Where: Trieste, Italy (45.7° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 13.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• latest Middle Pleistocene?
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: The site has been the subject of systematic excavations, yielding macro and micromammals and mousterien tools. The material is held in the Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara and the Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche di Pisa.
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 43701: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear | |
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Meles meles Linnaeus 1758 European badger | |
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Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox | |
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Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
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Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
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Dama dama Linnaeus 1758 fallow deer
Cervus elephas deer
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer | |
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Capra ibex Linnaeus 1758 Alpine ibex
Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 ox | |
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Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
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Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew | |
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Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare | |
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse | |
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Marmota marmota Linnaeus 1758 Alpine marmot | |
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Glis glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse | |
Cricetus cricetus, Dinaromys ex gr. bogdanovi, Microtus nivalis, Microtus ratticeps, Microtus ex gr. arvalis, Pliomys lenki
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster
Microtus nivalis vole
Microtus ratticeps vole
Pliomys lenki rodent | |