Mandriola, Western Sardegna (Sardinia): Ruscinian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Vespertilionidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Bovidae
Caprinae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Rhagapodemus hautimagnensis
Apodemus mannu
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys (Tyrrhenoglis) cf. figariensis Zammit et al. 1982
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus cf. figaro
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Sardinia
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 8.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 6.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Ruscinian
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Early Pliocene, MN 15?.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Continental molluscs and foraminifera are mentioned but not listed.
Taxonomic list comments:Endemic island fauna (therefore post Messinian).
Metadata
Database number:49332
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-13 07:06:34 Last modified:2005-04-13 10:07:20
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-13 07:06:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13151.PACED T. Kotsakis. 1986. Elementi di paleobiogeographia dei mammiferi Terziari dell Italia. Hystrix 1:25-68 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]