Meleto, Castelnuovo del Sabbioni lake, Eastern Tuscany: MN 16, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mammut" borsoni (Hays 1834)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus minimus Devéze and Bouillet 1827
recombined as Euarctos minimus
Mammalia - Bovidae
? Leptobos sp. Rutimeyer 1878
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus cf. jeanvireti Guérin 1972
recombined as Stephanorhinus jeanvireti
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Tuscany
Coordinates: 43.6° North, 11.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.5° North, 11.4° 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
Stratigraphy comments: Early Villanyian, MN 16a, Middle Pliocene, Triversa faunal unit.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: clay.
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: 'Dai depositi del primo cciclo lacustre, il Lago del Castelnuovo dei Sabbioni.'
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:49406
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-15 06:31:07 Last modified:2005-04-15 09:33:09
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-15 06:31:07
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]