Where: Vicenza, Italy (45.6° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 11.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Mixed fauna, some is Holocene (entered separately). ?Late Middle Pleistocene.
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: The fauna is fairly heterogeneous, and mixed. The specimens have not always been collected according to correct methods. Specimens are in a variety of collections, most are in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona and the Museo di Paleontologia dell'Univesita di Padova.
Primary reference: M. Bon, G. Piccoli, and B. Sala. 1991. I giacimenti Quaternari di vertebrati fossili nell'Italia Nord-Orientale. Memorie degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universita di Padova 47:185-231 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 43666: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 20.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Amphibia | |
Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod | |
Reptilia | |
Coluber sp. Linnaeus 1758 racer | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Mammalia | |
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant | |
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821 insectivoran | |
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent | |
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
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Microtus nivalis, Arvicola sp., Dinaromys bogdanovi, "Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Cricetus cricetus
Microtus nivalis vole
Arvicola sp. Lacépède 1799 vole
Dinaromys bogdanovi vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster | |
Muscardinus avellanarius Linnaeus 1758 hazel dormouse | |
Erinaceus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog | |
Episoriculus sp. Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951 red-toothed shrew | |
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear | |
Meles meles Linnaeus 1758 European badger | |
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine |