The rich mammal assemblage from Pantalla (Perugia, central Italy) represents an open window on the central Italy ecosystems during the early Late Villafranchian. The assemblage can be referred to the Olivola/Tasso Faunal Units and includes several cranial and postcranial remains of large herbivore and carnivore mammals in very good state of preservation. The fossil lynx from Pantalla is represented by a complete cranium, a right hemimandible, and a left calcaneus. The specimen can be referred to Lynx issiodorensis valdarnensis Werdelin, 1981, in accordance with the early Late Villafranchian biochronology of the mammal assemblage. The material from Pantalla is the best preserved record of this subspecies in Italy, thus providing new, valuable morphologic and morphometric information on Early Pleistocene lynxes and, in general, on their evolutionary history.
New well-preserved material of Lynx issiodorensis valdarnensis (Felidae, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene of Pantalla (central Italy)
CHERIN, MARCO;
2013
Abstract
The rich mammal assemblage from Pantalla (Perugia, central Italy) represents an open window on the central Italy ecosystems during the early Late Villafranchian. The assemblage can be referred to the Olivola/Tasso Faunal Units and includes several cranial and postcranial remains of large herbivore and carnivore mammals in very good state of preservation. The fossil lynx from Pantalla is represented by a complete cranium, a right hemimandible, and a left calcaneus. The specimen can be referred to Lynx issiodorensis valdarnensis Werdelin, 1981, in accordance with the early Late Villafranchian biochronology of the mammal assemblage. The material from Pantalla is the best preserved record of this subspecies in Italy, thus providing new, valuable morphologic and morphometric information on Early Pleistocene lynxes and, in general, on their evolutionary history.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
