Where: Tuscany, Italy (44.1° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 16 (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)

• Triversa faunal unit, MN 16a, Early Villanyian, Upper Pliocene.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: There is a question mark against the Hystrix specimen in Kotsakis et al. (2003), perhaps indicating doubt over the locality?

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 49362: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 14.04.2005

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