Cava Toppetti sandy gravels, near Todi, Central Italy: MN 17, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus cf. etruscus
(Falconer 1868)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| 1 scapula fragment. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Perugia |
| Coordinates: | 42.8° North, 12.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.7° North, 12.3° 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
| Formation: | Ponte Naja | ||||
| Regional section: | Tiberino Basin | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Pliocene. The fauna listed here comes from the Ponte Naja Formation, dated to roughly between 2.1 and 1.9Ma. Middle Villafranchian, Costa San Giacomo faunal unit (= Seneze). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: The Ponte Naja formation is 150m thick and 300m wide, and consists mainly of clayey, sandy silt and silty clay (98%) with minor sand or sandy gravel (2%). | |
| Environment: | alluvial fan |
| Geology comments: Fauna from a number of levels within the formation, but only from the palaeosols of silty clay, with the exception of one specimen (a left scapula of Stephanorhinus) which was from sandy gravels. | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Macrofossils collected at random during sedimentology fieldwork. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49260 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2005-04-12 08:26:36 | Last modified: | 2005-04-12 11:26:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-12 08:26:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13152. | PACED | L. Abbazzi, A. Albianelli, P. Ambrosetti, P. Argenti, G. Basilici, A. Bertini, S. Gentili, F. Masini, G. Napoleone and M.R. Pontini. 1997. Paleontological and sedimentological record in Pliocene distal alluvial fan deposits at Cava Toppetti (Todi, Central Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 36(1-2):5-22 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |