The dawn of the Late Villafranchian: Paleoenvironment and age of the Pantalla paleontological site (Italy; Early Pleistocene)

M Cherin, G Basilici, M Duval, Q Shao, MJ Sier… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochronology is the most widely used method for organizing the successions of continental
vertebrate faunas in geological time and for allowing the correlation of continental deposits …

Beware of the “Wolf event”–Remarks on large mammal dispersals in Europe and the late Villafranchian faunal turnover

A Iannucci, B Mecozzi, R Sardella - Alpine and Mediterranean …, 2023 - amq.aiqua.it
The “Wolf event” is a prominent concept in large mammal biochronology of western Europe.
It was defined in the 1980s as an intercontinental “dispersal event”, best represented by the …

The lost hyena from Paciano (Umbria, Italy) reconsidered

A Iannucci, M Cherin, R Sardella - Alpine and Mediterranean …, 2022 - amq.aiqua.it
We redescribe and revise the taxonomic attribution of a lost hyena mandible recovered from
Paciano (Umbria, Italy), originally reported in the early 1900s, by comparing it with relevant …

Sus strozzii (Suidae, Mammalia) from the historical locality of Quercia (Early Pleistocene, Italy)

A Iannucci - Geobios, 2023 - Elsevier
Some remains of suids were recovered during the second half of the 1800s from Quercia
(Tuscany, Italy), at a close distance to, but from a lower stratigraphic position than the better …

Virtual reconstruction of the Canis arnensis type (Canidae, Mammalia) from the Upper Valdarno Basin (Italy, Early Pleistocene)

S Bartolini-Lucenti, O Cirilli, M Melchionna, P Raia… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Taphonomic deformation, whether it be brittle or plastic, is possibly the most influential
process hindering the correct understanding of fossil species morphology. This is especially …

[HTML][HTML] The Early Pleistocene Carnivoran of Coste San Giacomo (Anagni, Central Italy): Biochronological Implications

L Bellucci, F Bona, J Conti, B Mecozzi, F Strani… - Quaternary, 2024 - mdpi.com
Coste San Giacomo (CSG) represents a significant paleontological site to investigate the
faunal and environmental changes that occurred in Mediterranean Europe during the Early …

[PDF][PDF] Cenozoic vertebrates from the central Mediterranean Basin: A tribute to the palaeontological legacy of Giovanni Capellini (1833-1922)

G Carnevale, A Collareta - Bollettino della Società Paleontologica …, 2022 - paleoitalia.it
On the 28th of May 1922, Giovanni Capellini died at the age of 88 in Bologna, his adoptive
city for more than sixty years. At that time, very few geoscientists had ever achieved a …