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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Large- and small-mammal distribution patterns and chronostratigraphic boundaries from the Late Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene of the Italian peninsula.
Benedetto SalaFederico Masinisubject
Palynologygeographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryPleistocenechronostratigraphical boundariesSmall mammalSedimentary basinIntegrated approachLate Pllioce-Middle PleistoceneLarge and small mammals; distribution patterns; chronostratigraphical boundaries; Late Pllioce-Middle Pleistocene; Italian peninsuladistribution patternsSequence (geology)PaleontologyPeninsulaPleistocene mammals bio-chronology ItalyQuaternaryGeologyLarge and small mammalsItalian peninsulaEarth-Surface Processesdescription
Abstract Over the last 50 years the studies on terrestrial mammals of the Italian peninsula have provided a large volume of data and a more detailed knowledge of faunal events during the Late Pliocene and Quaternary. Moreover geological, sedimentological, palynological and magnetostratigraphical investigations on the Pliocene–Pleistocene continental sedimentary basins have yielded the possibility of a detailed calibration of the faunal successions. Thus, palaeontologists have been able to reconstruct faunal sequences and to propose biochronological scales based on large and small mammals, respectively. In the present contribution an integration of the two biochronological scales is proposed, and the successions of bioevents are carefully compared. This integrated approach allows the constraint of the sequence of large- and small-mammal events in a more reliable way, and therefore it results in a more detailed and consistent chronological use of mammalian assemblages. Particular attention is paid to the faunal changes that correspond to the Middle–Late Pliocene (2.6 ma), Pliocene–Pleistocene (1.8 ma) and Early–Middle Pleistocene (Gauss–Matuyama transition) chronostratigraphical boundaries.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-01 |