Trefossi 1: Vallesian - Turolian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Deinogalerix intermedius Butler 1980
Butler 1980 1 specimen
caudal vertebra
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Microtia n. gen. informal lineage 2
20 specimens
Microtia n. gen. sp. Freudenthal 1976
4 specimens
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829
Mammalia - Lagomorpha
Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Foggia
Coordinates: 41.8° North, 15.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 15.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:67 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Tortonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Miocene
Key time interval: Vallesian - Turolian
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Late Vallesian-Turolian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fissure-fills in a limestone quarry
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Gargano fauna includes Amphibia, Reptilia (Testudinata, Crocodylia, Sauria, Serpentes), Aves, Mammalia (Insectivora, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Carnivora, Artiodactyla, Lagomorpha)
Metadata
Database number:32946
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:E. Leckey Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-07-21 14:21:52 Last modified:2003-08-25 14:06:17
Access level:the public Released:2003-07-21 14:21:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8830. M. Freudenthal. 1976. Rodent stratigraphy of some Miocene fissure fillings in Gargano (prov. Foggia, Italy). Scripta Geologica 37:1-23 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

88285% 29660P. M. Butler. 1980. The giant erinaceid insectivore, Deinogalerix Freudenthal, from the Upper Miocene of Gargano, Italy. Scripta Geologica 57:1-72 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/L. van den Hoek Ostende]