Olivola Fauna in Lunigiana district, NW Tuscany: MN 17, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Procamptoceros cf. brivatense
1 specimen
a maxillary tooth row.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon sp. Pohling 1888
synonym of Mammuthus
Partially damaged bones of a forelimb.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
Skulls, jaws, limb bones.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Cervidae
Pseudodama cf. nestii
synonym of Metacervocerus
Eucladoceros dicranios
Eucladoceros dicranios olivolanus. Partial skulls, jaws, antlers, limb bones.
Mammalia - Bovidae
Leptobos etruscus
Gallogoral meneghinii
2 specimens
a partial skull, and distal end of humerus.
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus strozzii Forsyth Major 1881
at least one complete skull in BMNH, London.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Megantereon cultridens (Cuvier 1824)
a partial skull, a jaw, isolated teeth. (3 measurements)
Homotherium crenatidens Fabrini 1890
Few teeth.
Felis lunensis Martelli 1906
A felid the size of a domestic cat. A jaw, partial fore and hind limbs.
Lynx cf. issiodorensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
an incomplete skull, a maxilla, a jaw, fragments of pelvis and limbs.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Chasmaporthetes lunensis Del Campana 1914
1 specimen
a partial skull.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis etruscus Forsyth Major 1877
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Tuscany County:Lunigiana
Coordinates: 44.2° North, 10.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° North, 10.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Gelasian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 17
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Latest Pliocene/Earliest Pleistocene. Olivola fauna unit (roughly 1.8Ma).
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: pink-yellowish matrix.
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: Fossils washed in by a flood.
Taphonomy
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Size sorting:well
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: First collected by Igino Cocchi and Giovanni Cappellini (material in Pisa and Bologna Universities). Main collection by Forsyth Major in late 1800s (material in Florence University, Palaeontology Museum and The Natural History Museum, London) (possibly also some in Paris).
Metadata
Database number:49254
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-12 07:55:12 Last modified:2005-04-12 11:52:28
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-12 07:55:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13155.PACED A. Azzaroli. 2001. Middle and Late Villafranchian vertebrates from Tuscany and Umbria. A synopsis. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(3):351-356 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]