Monte Mason, Nanto, Vicenza, Northern Italy: Middle Pleistocene, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Glis glis
(Linnaeus 1766)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Marmota marmota
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Dolomys ex gr. bogdanovi
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= Dinaromys ex gr. bogdanovi
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Bon et al. 1991 | |||||||||
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Cricetus cricetus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Apodemus sylvaticus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex alpinus
Schinz 1837
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| Sorex alpinus cf. hercynicus | ||||||||||
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Sorex araneus
Linnaeus 1758
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Vicenza | County: | Nanto |
| Coordinates: | 45.4° North, 11.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.4° North, 11.6° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.774 - 0.129 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Middle Pleistocene. |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: clay. | |
| Environment: | karst indet. |
| Geology comments: A karstic fissure filled with clay. | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: Site found during road widening near Nanto. The material is held in the Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Material still largely unpublished (as of 1991). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 43692 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2004-08-23 04:12:17 | Last modified: | 2004-08-23 07:12:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-08-23 04:12:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11465. | PACED | 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] |