Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.9° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 8.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone and calcareous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: University of Cagliari
Primary reference: F. Chesi, M. Delfino, L. Abbazzi, S. Carboni, L. Lecca and L. Rook. 2007. New fossil vertebrate remains from San Giovanni di Sinis (Late Pleistocene, Sardinia): the last Mauremys (Reptilia, Testudines) in the central Mediterranean. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 113(2):287-297 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190854: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 19.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mauremys sp. Gray 1870 pond turtle MDLCA 23851, three plastron fragments; MDLCA 23852, twentythree shell fragments; MDLCA 23853 (formerly UC 1), a fragmentary of an anterior plastral lobe (epiplastra and entoplastron) (Figure 22a); MDLCA 23854 (formerly UC 2), a pygal (Figure 22b); MDLCA 23855 (formerly UC 3), fragmentary right hyoplastron of a young specimen (Figure 22c); MDLCA 23856 (formerly UC 4), a fragmentary left xiphiplastron (Figure 22d); MDLCA 23857a–e (formerly UC 5), five fragments of xiphiplastra (Figure 22e–i). In addition, Caloi at al. (1980) reported the following material kept in Rome: a left peripheral I; a right hyoplastron; a left xiphiplastron; a fragment of hypoplastron.
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