Monte Pugna, Val di Pugna, near Siena, Tuscany: Ruscinian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972
recombined as Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus minor
Mammalia - Bovidae
Alephis lyrix Gromolard 1980
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon longirostris (Cuvier 1824)
Bianucci 1997 1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
? Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Felsinotherium gervaisi n. sp. Capellini 1872
Capellini 1872
synonym of Metaxytherium subapenninum
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Tuscany
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 11.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.2° North, 11.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Ruscinian
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Pliocene, MN14-15.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Marine and terrestrial deposits. 'Si tratta di un deposito marino che contiene anche resti fluitati di macromammiferi terrestri.' (p. 42)
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: First reported by Capellini in 1872.
Taxonomic list comments: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.
Metadata
Database number:49335
Authorizer:A. Turner, M. Uhen Enterer:H. O'Regan, M. Uhen
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-13 07:40:41 Last modified:2005-04-13 10:45:27
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-13 07:40:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13151.PACED T. Kotsakis. 1986. Elementi di paleobiogeographia dei mammiferi Terziari dell Italia. Hystrix 1:25-68 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

18805 A. Azzaroli, C. De Giuli, G. Ficcarelli and D. Torre. 1982. Table of the stratigraphic distribution of terrestrial mammalian faunas in Italy from the Pliocene to the early middle Pleisocene. 5:55-58 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
11911 G. Bianucci. 1997. The Odontoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from Italian Pliocene. The Ziphiidae. Palaeontographica Italica 84:163-192 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/N. Pyenson]
18857 G. Capellini. 1872. Sul Felsinoterio Sirenoide Halicoreforme dei depositi littorali Pliocenici dell'Antico bacino del Maditerraneo e del Mar Nero. Memorie dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto di Bologna Serie III 3(1):605-646 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]