Monte Pugna, Val di Pugna, near Siena, Tuscany (Pliocene of Italy)
Where: Tuscany, Italy (43.3° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 11.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Ruscinian (5.3 - 3.2 Ma)
• Lower Pliocene, MN14-15.
Environment/lithology:
• Marine and terrestrial deposits. 'Si tratta di un deposito marino che contiene anche resti fluitati di macromammiferi terrestri.' (p. 42)
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: First reported by Capellini in 1872.
Primary reference: T. Kotsakis. 1986. Elementi di paleobiogeographia dei mammiferi Terziari dell Italia. Hystrix 1:25-68 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49335: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 13.04.2005, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Kotsakis lists Cus minor Deperet 1890, this has been entered as Sus minor, as Cus does not appear in McKenna & Bell (1997) and Sus minor is a known species.
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Mammalia | |
"Dicerorhinus jeanvireti" = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
"Dicerorhinus jeanvireti" = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972 rhinoceros | |
Sus minor pig | |
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Alephis lyrix Gromolard 1980 antelope | |
"Felsinotherium gervaisi n. sp." = Metaxytherium subapenninum2
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? Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere |