Barga, Northern Tuscany: MN 16, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
? Dicerorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972
recombined as Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus minor
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Tuscany
Coordinates: 44.1° North, 10.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 10.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 16
Age range of interval:3.20000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Regional section:Barga
Stratigraphy comments: Triversa faunal unit, MN 16a, Early Villanyian, Upper Pliocene.
Lithology and environment
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: Barga is in a small lacustine basin.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: There is a question mark against the Hystrix specimen in Kotsakis et al. (2003), perhaps indicating doubt over the locality?
Metadata
Database number:49362
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-14 08:55:21 Last modified:2005-04-14 11:55:21
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-14 08:55:20
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]