Laiatico, Lower Valdarno, Northern Tuscany: MN 16, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus (Archidiskodon) gromovi
synonym of Mammuthus
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Tuscany
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 10.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 10.7° 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 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Regional section:Lower Valdarno
Stratigraphy comments: MN 16b, Montopoli faunal unit, Middle-Late Pliocene, Middle Villanyian.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: First published by Ramaccioni (1936).
Metadata
Database number:49410
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-15 06:56:31 Last modified:2005-04-15 09:56:31
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-15 06:56:30
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]