Where: Italy (41.9° N, 12.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 12.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• The fossil remains here described were found in the layer G of the Casal Selce succession, following the stratigraphic schemes proposed by Conato et al. (1980) and Sardella & Petrucci (2012). This level, together with the layer F, have been considered as "Salmon sand" by Marra et al. (2014). The "Salmon sand" deposit of this site provided a rich vertebrate fossil association referred to the Isernia Faunal Unit (Middle Galerian) and has been attributed, on the basis of the correlation with other dated similar deposits in the Ponte Galeria area, to a time span between 615 ± 3 ka and 565 ± 2 ka (MIS 15, a warm isotopic stage).

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Sapienza, Roma

Primary reference: M. Pavia and C. Bedetti. 2013. The presence of Harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Middle Pleistocene of Italy. Journal of Ornithology 154:875-878 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197786: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.11.2018

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