Also known as Grotta dell'Alce, Losova Jama
Where: Trieste, Italy (45.7° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 13.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• Middle-Upper Pleistocene.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Site found in 1896. Material stored in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste.
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 43702: 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 | |
Cervus elephas deer
Alces alces Linnaeus 1758 moose
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer
Megaloceros euryceros Irish elk | |
Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 ox
Bison priscus Bojanus 1827 bison | |
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Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear | |
Meles meles Linnaeus 1758 European badger | |
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf | |
Lepus timidus Linnaeus 1758 mountain hare | |
Dinaromys sp. Kretzoi 1955 vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole |