PBDB Collection

Island fossil ungulates and their predators (Pliocene to of Italy)

Where: Sardinia, Italy (40.1° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Raia and S. Meiri. 2006. The Island Rule in Large Mammals: Paleontology Meets Ecology. Evolution 60(8):1731-1742 [M. Uhen/L. White]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94327: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Lauren White on 16.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Chasmaportetes mele, Nesogoral sp. Chasmaportetes mele carnivore, late Pliocene-early Pleistocene Nesogoral sp. late Pliocene-early Pleistocene
Mammalia
Carnivora - Canidae	Cynotherium sp., Cynotherium sardous Cynotherium sp. Studiati 1857 canid carnivore, late Pliocene-middle Pleistocene Cynotherium sardous Studiati 1857 canid carnivore, late Pleistocene
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Praemegaceros sp., Praemegaceros cazioti Praemegaceros sp. Portis 1920 deer middle Pleistocene Praemegaceros cazioti Deperet 1897 deer late Pleistocene
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Caprinae indeterminate Caprinae indeterminate antelope late Pliocene-early Pleistocene
Artiodactyla - Suidae	Sus sondaari Sus sondaari pig late Pliocene-early Pleistocene
Proboscidea - Elephantidae	Mammuthus lamarmorae Mammuthus lamarmorae Major 1883 mammoth late Pleistocene