Rivoli Veronese (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Verona, Italy (45.6° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 10.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Villanyian (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)

• 'Following Kotsakis et al. (2003) and Sala and Masini (2007), the rodent assemblage from Rivoli Veronese can be assigned to the M.pliocaenicus zone, which is correlated with the late Villanyan and the MN 17. Moreover, the mammalian fauna is included in the Coste S. Giacomo Faunal Unit (Gliozzi et al., 1997; Kotsakis et al., 2003; Sala and Masini, 2007), which represents the first half of the c2r.1r subchron (roughly between 2.13 and 2.0 Ma) according to Bellucci et al. (2014).' - Villa, et al. 2018

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; limestone

• 'It is represented by a fissure, which originated from karstic processes in limestone, and then was later filled with limestone clasts and fluvial sediments (Sala et al.,1994).' - Villa, et al. 2018

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Villa, H.-A. Blain, and M. Delfino. 2018. The Early Pleistocene herpetofauna of Rivoli Veronese (Northern Italy) as evidence for humid and forested glacial phases in the Gelasian of Southern Alps. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 490:393-403 [G. Benevento/G. Benevento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206747: authorized by Gemma Benevento, entered by Gemma Benevento on 26.11.2019, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
 Salientia - Discoglossidae
Bombina sp. Oken 1816 fire-bellied toad
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo bufo Linnaeus 1758 toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
Ranidae indet. Rafinesque 1814 frog
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog
 Salientia - Hylidae
Hyla ex gr. arborea Linnaeus 1758 tree frog
 Caudata -
Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777 salamander
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton pannonicum Venczel and Gardner 2005 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758 snake
 Squamata - Crotalidae
"Vipera ex gr. aspis" = Vipera (Vipera) aspis
"Vipera ex gr. aspis" = Vipera (Vipera) aspis Linnaeus 1758 asp viper
 Squamata - Colubridae
"Colubrinae" indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
Coronella sp. Laurenti 1768 colubrid snake
Zamenis longissimus colubrid snake
Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768 water snake
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Lacerta ex gr. viridis Laurenti 1768 European green lizard
 Squamata -
"Lacertilia" indet. Owen 1842 lizard
incl. "Lacertian indet."
 Squamata - Anguidae
Anguis sp. Linnaeus 1758 slow worm
Anguis ex gr. fragilis Linneaus 1758 Slow worm
cf. Pseudopus sp. Merrem 1820 legless lizard
 Squamata -