Mandriola, Western Sardegna (Sardinia) (Pliocene of Italy)
Where: Sardinia, Italy (40.0° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 6.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Ruscinian (5.3 - 3.2 Ma)
• Early Pliocene, MN 15?.
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Continental molluscs and foraminifera are mentioned but not listed.
Primary reference: T. Kotsakis. 1986. Elementi di paleobiogeographia dei mammiferi Terziari dell Italia. Hystrix 1:25-68 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49332: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 13.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Endemic island fauna (therefore post Messinian).
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| Mammalia | |
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Vespertilionidae indet. Gray 1821 vesper bat | |
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Caprinae indet. Gray 1821 antelope | |
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Talpidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole | |
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Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog | |
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Prolagus cf. figaro pika | |
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Eliomys (Tyrrhenoglis) cf. figariensis Zammit et al. 1982 dormouse | |
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Apodemus mannu Eurasian field mouse | |