San Giusto, near Empoli, northern Tuscany (Pliocene of Italy)
Where: Tuscany, Italy (43.7° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 10.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 16 (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)
• Upper Pliocene, early Villanyian, MN 16a, based on the identification of Mimomys stehlini.
Environment/lithology: marine
• marine-brackish sediments.
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Type site of Mimomys (Cseria) stehlini.
Primary reference: T. Kotsakis. 1986. Elementi di paleobiogeographia dei mammiferi Terziari dell Italia. Hystrix 1:25-68 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49337: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 13.04.2005
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