Capo Mannu D1 LF (local fauna): Piacenzian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
cf. Ichthyosaura sp.
Trunk vertebra: 3
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Salamandrina sp. Fitzinger 1826
Occipito-otic unit: 3; precaudal vertebra: 16; caudal vertebra: 4
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Maxilla: 4; squamosal: 1; pterygoid: 2; mandible: 3; scapula: 1; clavicula: 1, cora- coid: 1; humerus: 8; radioulna: 9; ilium: 5; ischium: 3; femur: 4; tibiofibula: 8; vertebra: 21; sacral vertebra: 3; urostyle: 1; indet.: 26.
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Hylidae
Hyla cf. arborea (Linnaeus 1758)
original and current combination Rana arborea
Mandible: 1; scapula: 3; hu- merus: 2; ilium: 8; femur: 2; trunk vertebra: 3; sacral vertebra: 1; urostyle: 2
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
cf. Bufo cf. viridis Laurenti 1768
Ilium: 1; femur: 2.
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Discoglossidae
Discoglossus sp. Otth 1837
Humerus: 3; ilium: 6; femur: 1; atlas: 1; trunk vertebra: 15; urostlye: 1; rib: 2.
Reptilia
Lacertilia indet. (Owen 1842)
Maxilla: 5; dentary: 8; tooth bearing bone: 5; coronoid: 1; jugal: 1; articular: 1; scapu- locoracoid: 2; humerus: 7; femur: 7; tibia: 1; vertebra: 42; ribs: 5
Reptilia - Anguidae
Dopasia sp. Gray 1853
Maxilla: 2 ; pterygoid: 2; frontal: 2; parietal: 1 ; dentary: 1 ; cervical vertebra: 1; trunk vertebra: 30 ; caudal vertebra: 33 ; rib: 11; osteoderm: 5.
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831
Fragmentary left dentary: 1
Lacerta cf. viridis (Laurenti 1768)
Tooth bearing bone: 4; hu- merus: 1; trunk vertebra: 1; caudal vertebra: 5; rib: 1; ungual phalanx: 6.
Reptilia - Amphisbaenia
Amphisbaenia indet. (Gray 1844)
Trunk vertebra: 16; caudal vertebra: 1
Reptilia - Gekkonidae
Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825
Maxilla: 1; ilium: 1; trunk vertebra: 3.
Reptilia - Serpentes
Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758
Vertebra: 48; cloacal verte- bra: 1; caudal vertebra: 9 (including a fused caudal tip); rib: 24.
Reptilia - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811
Maxilla: 1 fragment; trunk vertebra: 21
Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768
Trunk vertebra: 1
Reptilia - Boidae
Eryx cf. jaculus
Cervical vertebra: 1; trunk vertebra: 9; caudal vertebra: 2.
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Vipera sp. Laurenti 1768
Tooth: 1; trunk vertebra: 2.
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Sardinia
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 8.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 7.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Piacenzian Mammal zone: MN16
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Capo Mannu dune complex Member:D4
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dune unit
Environment:dune
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Earth Sciences Department of University of Cagliari, G. Pecorini collection
Metadata
Database number:230767
Authorizer:J. Head Enterer:G. Varnham
Created:2023-07-20 07:47:51 Last modified:2023-07-20 07:47:51
Access level:the public Released:2023-07-20 07:47:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
85331. M. Delfino, S. Bailon, and G. Pitruzzella. 2011. The Late Pliocene amphibians and reptiles from “Capo Mannu D1 Local Fauna” (Mandriola, Sardinia, Italy). Geodiversitas 33(2):357-382 [J. Head/G. Varnham]