Vigna Nuova (lower layer)
Basic information
Sample name: Vigna Nuova (lower layer)
Reference: B. Azzarà, M. Breda, O. Cirilli, J. Madurell-Malapeira, F. Ruzza, L. Sorbelli, D. Tancredi, and M. Cherin. 2022. Vigna Nuova: the first Middle Villafranchian mammal assemblage from the Valdichiana Basin, Perugia (Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 61(2):223-247 [ER 4016]
Geography
Country: Italy
State: Perugia
Coordinate: 42° 58' 4" N, 12° 4' 4" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Section: Vigna Nuova
Unit number: 1
Unit order: below to above
Max Ma: 2.2
Min Ma: 2.1
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: near Piegaro
dated to late MIddle Villafranchian and specifically 2.2 – 2.1 Ma based on biochronology
dated to late MIddle Villafranchian and specifically 2.2 – 2.1 Ma based on biochronology
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Taphonomic context: paleosol
Habitat comments: the section is now "almost completely covered by vegetation" but appears to include "conglomerates with rounded, polygenic clasts, sometimes with imbricate bedding, alternating with thin layers of medium-coarse sand"
the fossils are "embedded by or maintaining traces of a whitish-yellowish sand with carbonate matrix" interpreted as a paleosol
the material ranges "from poorly preserved isolated specimens (very abraded and broken bones) to well-preserved ones, sometimes still in anatomical connection"
the fossils are "embedded by or maintaining traces of a whitish-yellowish sand with carbonate matrix" interpreted as a paleosol
the material ranges "from poorly preserved isolated specimens (very abraded and broken bones) to well-preserved ones, sometimes still in anatomical connection"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 34 specimens
Years: 1989
Sampling comments: the site "was unearthed in 1989 during excavation works... for the planting of a vineyard"
the material "is curated by Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio dell'Umbria"
the material "is curated by Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio dell'Umbria"
Metadata
Sample number: 4431
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2024-11-06 03:52:44
Modified: 2024-11-06 03:52:44
Abundance distribution
10 species
6 singletons
total count 34
geometric series index: 32.9
Fisher's α: 4.774
geometric series k: 0.7402
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7326
Shannon's H: 1.7271
Good's u: 0.8253
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Register
| Megantereon sp. | 1 | |
| compared to | ||
| Canis sp. | 4 | |
| compared to C. etruscus | ||
| Mustelidae indet. | 1 | |
| Proboscidea indet. | 1 | |
| †Equus cf. senezensis | 7 | |
| Leptobos sp. | 1 | |
| compared to | ||
| †Croizetoceros ramosus | 1 | |
| Dama sp. | 15 | |
| "Pseudodama sp.": compared to P. lyra and P. rhenana, both of which probably represent Dama: see van der Made et al. (2023) | ||
| Cervidae indet. | 1 | |
| large | ||
| †Sus cf. strozzii | 2 | |