List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus lamarmorae
(Major 1883)
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Melis and Palombo 2001 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Deinogalerix koenigswaldi
Freudenthal 1972
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20 specimens | |||||||||
| both cranial and postcranial elements | ||||||||||
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Deinogalerix brevirostris
Butler 1980
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| femur, mandible fragment with m2 and m3 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Foggia |
| Coordinates: | 41.8° North, 15.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.5° North, 15.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 67 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Vallesian-Turolian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fissure-fills in a limestone quarry | |
| Environment: | fissure fill |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Gargano fauna includes Amphibia, Reptilia (Testudinata, Crocodylia, Sauria, Serpentes), Aves, Mammalia (Insectivora, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Carnivora, Artiodactyla, Lagomorpha) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 33295 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | E. Leckey, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 32931 | ||
| Created: | 2003-07-24 15:11:40 | Last modified: | 2003-08-25 14:22:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-07-24 15:11:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8828. | 5% 29660 | P. M. Butler. 1980. The giant erinaceid insectivore, Deinogalerix Freudenthal, from the Upper Miocene of Gargano, Italy. Scripta Geologica 57:1-72 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/L. van den Hoek Ostende] |
Secondary references:
| 31399 | R. Melis and M. R. Palombo. 2001. Mammuthus lamarmorae (Major, 1883) remains in the pre-Tyrrhenian deposits of San Giovanni in Sinis (Western Sardinia, Italy). The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome 481-485 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |