Where: Trieste, Italy (45.8° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 13.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Middle Pleistocene.
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: The material is held temporarily held in the Departimento di Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche dell'Universita di Ferrara, the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra di Firenze and the Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche di Pisa.
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 43704: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
"Citellus sp." = Spermophilus, Marmota marmota
"Citellus sp." = Spermophilus Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
Marmota marmota Linnaeus 1758 Alpine marmot | |
Allocricetus bursae, Pliomys episcopalis, Cricetus cricetus, Microtus gregalis, Microtus nivalis, Microtus agrestis, Microtus arvalis, Microtus ex gr. arvalis, Arvicola cantiana, Arvicola sp., Dinaromys ex gr. bogdanovi, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes
Allocricetus bursae mouse
Pliomys episcopalis mouse
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster
Microtus gregalis vole
Microtus nivalis vole
Microtus agrestis Linnaeus 1761 field vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Arvicola cantiana vole
Arvicola sp. Lacépède 1799 vole
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole | |
Ochotona pusillus pika
Ochotona sp. Link 1795 pika | |
| |
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox | |
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore | |
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer
Dama sp. Frisch 1775 fallow deer
Dama dama Linnaeus 1758 fallow deer | |
Capridae indet. Gray 1821 placental | |
Stephanorhinus mercki rhinoceros | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
| |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole
Talpa cf. romana Thomas 1902 mole |