Where: Verona, Italy (45.6° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 10.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Early Biharian, early/middle Early Pleistocene, older than Pietrafitta and Pirro Nord, similar age to Zabia Cave, Osztramos 8 and Betfia 10. Date based on presence of Microtus (Allophaiomys) gr. pliocaenicus plus Mimomys tornensis and M. pusillus. Possibly correlates with Waalian A.
Environment/lithology: fissure fill
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Site discovered in 1996. Sediments washed to recover small vertebrates.
Primary reference: M. Marchetti, K. Parolin, and B. Sala. 2000. The Biharian fauna from Monte La Mesa (Verona, northeastern Italy). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 43(1):79-105 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51625: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 09.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Glis sackdillingensis Heller 1930 dormouse upper teeth: 2 P4, 12 M1, 4 M2, 1 M3. Lower teeth: 3 D4, 2 P4, 9 M1, 6 M2, 1 M3.
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Sciurus warthae squirrel Upper teeth: 3 I1, 1 D4, 1 P4, 1 M1-2. Lower teeth: 2 I1, 4 P4, 3 M1, 1 M2, 1 M3.
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Apodemus atavus Eurasian field mouse upper teeth: 159 M1, 76 M2, 4 M3. Lower teeth: 224 M1, 93 M2, 24 M3.
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Pliomys episcopalis, Dinaromys dalmatinus, Mimomys tornensis, Mimomys pusillus, Mimomys cf. ostramosensis, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes, "Microtus (Allophaiomys) ex gr. pliocaenicus" = Allophaiomys pliocaenicus, Allocricetus bursae, Allocricetus ehiki
Pliomys episcopalis mouse upper teeth: 52 M1, 51 M2, 51 M3, 1 M1and2. Lower teeth: 107 M1, 60 M2, 65 M3, 2 M1 and 2, 1 M1, 2 and 3.
"Microtus (Allophaiomys) ex gr. pliocaenicus" = Allophaiomys pliocaenicus Kormos 1932 vole Lower teeth: 84 M1, 54 M2, 28 M3. Upper teeth: 45 M1, 38 M2, 42 M3, 1 lower M1 and 2.
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Hypolagus beremendensis rabbit 14 upper incisors, 12 lower incisors, 42 upper jugals, 19 lower jugals, 1 right radius (proximal frag), 1 second phalanx.
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Soricidae "indet. 1", Soricidae "indet. 2", Beremendia fissidens, Asoriculus gibberodon, Petenyia hungarica, Sorex minutus, Sorex (Drepanosorex) praearaneus, Sorex bor, Sorex praealpinus, Crocidura sp.
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew 13 upper I1, 11 other upper teeth, 1 maxilla with M1 and M2, 28 lower I1, 8 lower molars, 1 mandible with M1& 2, 3 mandibles with M2, 1 with M2 and 3, 4 edentulous mandibles, 8 ascending rami, 3 mandibular condyles.
Asoriculus gibberodon shrew 51 upper incisors, 21 other upper teeth, 2 maxillae, 100 lower I1, 1 lower M1, 41 mandibles with teeth, 32 edentulous mandibles, 5 mandibular condyles.
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934 red-toothed shrew 5 upper incisors, 2 upper M1, 2 maxillae, 12 lower I1, 2 lower M2, 2 mandibles with P4, M1, M2, 2 with M1 and 2, 3 with M1,2,3, 2 with M2, 1 with M2 & 3, 1 with M3, 9 ascending rami, 2 mandibular condyles.
Sorex bor Reumer 1984 long-tailed shrew 1 upper M2, 1 lower M2, 8 mandibles with teeth, 5 ascending rami.
Sorex praealpinus Heller 1930 long-tailed shrew 9 mandibles with teeth, 4 ascending rami, 1 condyle.
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Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole 3 upper P4, 1 upper M1, 1 maxilla, 2 upper M1. Lower teeth - 1 P4, 3 M1, 5 M2, 3 M3, 2 mandibles with teeth, 5 edentulous mandibles, 1 scapula, 12 humerii, 14 radii, 9 ulnae, 4 femora, 7 tibiae-fibulae.
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