Riparo di Visogliano, Trieste, Northern Italy (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Trieste, Italy (45.8° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene.

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: The material is held temporarily held in the Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara, the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra di Firenze 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 43704: 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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unclassified
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Megacerinae indet.
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet.
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes sp.
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox
 Tribosphenida - Capridae
Capridae indet.
Capridae indet. Gray 1821 placental
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Capreolus capreolus, Cervus elephas, Dama sp., Dama dama
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer
Cervus elephas deer
Cervus elephas cf. acoronatus
Dama sp. Frisch 1775 fallow deer
Dama dama Linnaeus 1758 fallow deer
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus mercki, Stephanorhinus etruscus
Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros
Dicerorhinus gr. etruscus-hemitoechus
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp., Equus caballus
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Talpa cf. romana, Talpa europaea
Talpa cf. romana Thomas 1902 mole
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Sorex ex gr. runtonensis
Sorex ex gr. runtonensis Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew
Sorex gr. runtonensis-kennardi
 Primates - Hominidae
Homo erectus
Homo erectus Dubois 1892 human
1 mandible fragment.
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona pusillus, Ochotona sp.
Ochotona sp. Link 1795 pika
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota marmota, "Citellus sp." = Spermophilus
Marmota marmota Linnaeus 1758 Alpine marmot
"Citellus sp." = Spermophilus Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Allocricetus bursae, Pliomys episcopalis, Dinaromys ex gr. bogdanovi, Arvicola cantiana, Arvicola sp., Microtus gregalis, Microtus nivalis, Microtus agrestis, Microtus arvalis, Microtus ex gr. arvalis, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes, Cricetus cricetus
Arvicola sp. Lacépède 1799 vole
Microtus agrestis Linnaeus 1761 field vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Microtus ex gr. arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Microtus gr. arvalis-incertus
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster