Where: Italy (39.2° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• "The fossil remains reported here come from layer C14, on top of the SC section and just below a flowstone radiometrically (U-Th) dated to >0.5 Ma (Melis et al., 2013; Palombo and Rozzi, 2014)... ?late Early Pleistocene and/or Early Middle Pleistocene." (Madurell-Malapeira et al. 2015)

•Section is five meters thick, composed of 14 levels. Birds collected in levels C9 and C14, and C. malatestai collected at C14, but detailed provenance not given.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico di Paleontologia e Speleologia "E.A. Martel" of Carbonaria

Primary reference: M. Pavia and C. Bedetti. 2003. The late Pleistocene fossil avian remains from Grotta dei Fiori, Carbonia (SW Sardinia, Italy). Bolletino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 42:163-169 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194929: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.07.2018, edited by Bethany Allen

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