Where: Italy (36.9° N, 14.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• The fossil bird bones were associated in all the deposits with remains of endemic mammals of the early Middle Pleistocene "Elephas falconeri Faunal Complex" of the Sicilian biochronological scheme.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Comiso (MCSNC)

Primary reference: M. Pavia and G. Insacco. 2013. The fossil bird associations from the early Middle Pleistocene of the Ragusa province (SE Sicily, Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 52:157-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197927: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2018

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