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.
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
"Dicerorhinus jeanvireti" = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
"Dicerorhinus jeanvireti" = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon longirostris1 Cuvier 1824 beaked whale
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Alephis lyrix Gromolard 1980 antelope
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
"Felsinotherium gervaisi n. sp." = Metaxytherium subapenninum2
"Felsinotherium gervaisi n. sp." = Metaxytherium subapenninum2 Bruno 1839 dugong
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
? Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere