Montopoli, Lower Valdarno (Pliocene of Italy)

Also known as Villa Guicciardini

Where: Pisa, Italy (43.7° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 10.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Villanyian (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)

• MN16, Villanyian, 2.65-2.48 Ma. Matuyama chron. Lower Valdarno

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

• shelf mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Material held in the Palaeontology Museum of the Institute of Geology in Firenze (IGF). Collected by Forsyth Major.

Primary reference: C. De Guili and E. Heintz. 1974. Croizetoceros ramosus (Cervidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) de Montopoli, nouvel element de la faune Villafranchienne d'Italie. Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie, Serie A 81:241-251 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44089: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 01.09.2004, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• Azzaroli (2001) also lists Capreolus cusanus but I'm not sure which cervid this replaces. Azzaroli (2001) does not list ? Eucladoceros, Leptobos or Gazella borbonica.
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus jeanvireti1 Guérin 1972 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Idiocetus guicciardinii n. gen. n. sp.3 Capellini 1876 right whale
Eubalaena sp.2 Gray 1864 right whale
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
"Pseudodama cf. lyra" = Metacervocerus1, "Cervus pardinensis" = Metacervocerus pardinensis4, ? Eucladoceros sp.4, Croizetoceros ramosus
"Pseudodama cf. lyra" = Metacervocerus1 deer
"Cervus pardinensis" = Metacervocerus pardinensis4 Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
? Eucladoceros sp.4 Falconer 1868 deer
Croizetoceros ramosus Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
1 frontal fragment with antler base, upper teeth 1 M2-M2, 1 P3-M2, 3 M1, 1 P2, lower teeth 2 P4-M3, 2 P3, 1 P2, 1 P3-M1, 1 proximal left metacarpal, 1 right distal tibia, 2 right astrgali, 1 left cubo-navicular.
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
 Carnivora - Felidae
Acinonyx pardinensis4 Croizet and Jobert 1828 cheetah
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pachycrocuta perrieri4 brown hyaena
 Carnivora - Canidae
Nyctereutes megamastoides4 Pomel 1842 raccoon dog
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Mammuthus (Archidiskodon) gromovi" = Mammuthus4
"Mammuthus (Archidiskodon) gromovi" = Mammuthus4 mammoth