Where: Island of Sardinia, Italy (41.0° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 8.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: MN 16 (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)
• Upper Pliocene, apparently correspnding to the MN 16 of Pierre Mein.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Details on the locality are unknown
Primary reference: B. Engesser. 1976. Tyrrhenoglis majori, ein neuer fossiler Gliride (Rodentia, Mammalia) aus Sardinien. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 69(3):783-793 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37571: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 17.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Tyrrhenoglis majori n. gen. n. sp.
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