The site of Coste San Giacomo (Early Pleistocene, central Italy): Palaeoenvironmental analysis and biochronological overview

Bellucci, Luca; Mazzini, Ilaria; Scardia, Giancarlo; Bruni, Luciano; Parenti, Fabio; Segre, Aldo; Naldini, Eugenia Segre; Sardella, Raffaele

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.006

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“…In the CSG large mammal assemblage the newcomer Southern mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis is recorded together with the mastodon Anancus arvernensis (Bellucci et al, 2012). The coexistence of these two taxa clearly testifies the gradual replacement of the mastodons by early species of Mammuthus with a significant palaeoenvironmental implication, since the arrival of M. meridionalis at the Italian Peninsula corresponds with an opening-up of the vegetation during the earliest Pleistocene.…”

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“…The mammal assemblage of Coste San Giacomo (CSG), in works prior to Bellucci et al (2012) referred as Costa San Giacomo Kahlke et al, 2011), has been recently dated around 2.1 Ma (middle Villafranchian, MN 17 biozone) (Bellucci et al, 2014). This site is therefore crucial to investigate the environmental and faunal changes that occurred in the Mediterranean region during the Gelasian, which were a result of major climatic changes at a global scale.…”

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Paleoenvironments and climatic changes in the Italian Peninsula during the Early Pleistocene: evidence from dental wear patterns of the ungulate community of Coste San Giacomo

Strani

DeMiguel

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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Paleoenvironments and climatic changes in the Italian Peninsula during the Early Pleistocene: evidence from dental wear patterns of the ungulate community of Coste San Giacomo

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“…Blandamura & Azzaroli, 1977). Bellucci et al (2012Bellucci et al ( , 2014 reported on a hippo specimen from Coste San Giacomo. This would strengthen the case for Hippopotamus in Italy between some 2.1 and 1.8 Ma.…”

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Faunas from Atapuerca at the Early–Middle Pleistocene limit: The ungulates from level TD8 in the context of climatic change

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Rosell

Blasco

2017

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An extraordinary sequence of fossiliferous levels at the locality of Gran Dolina in the Atapuerca Hills (Burgos, Spain) records the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition. These levels are well dated by a variety of methods, including palaeomagnetism, which locates Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary at the tope of level TD7. Level TD6 is the type site of the species Homo antecessor and yielded over 90% of the European Early Pleistocene human record, while other levels have an archaeological record. The present paper deals with the earliest Middle Pleistocene ungulates of TD8, but we plan to describe the faunas, or at least the ungulates, of levels TD4 to TD8 in the context of the faunal changes that took place around the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition.About 600 fossils could be assigned to a taxon and on this basis the following ungulates are described from TD8: horse Equus altidens, rhinoceros Stephanorhinus aff. etruscus, wild boar Sus scrofa, hippopotamus Hippopotamus sp., red deer Cervus elaphus, giant deer Eucladoceros aff. giulii, giant deer Megaceroides solilhacus, fallow deer Dama vallonnetensis, and bison Bison voigtstedtensis. The evolution of these taxa is discussed. The fauna from level TD8 dates to the earliest Middle Pleistocene (stage 19) and differs from later faunas in the retention of a small rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus aff. etruscus) and the latest representative of the genus Eucladoceros. It differs from earlier faunas in having the striped hyaena. Together with the fauna from TD7, in which the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary is recorded, TD8 will provide the most precise criterions for correlation of the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary on the basis of fossils of large mammals.Profound changes in the global climate system started to take place during the late Early Pleistocene, leading to intensive environmental and faunal change and to human dispersal into Europe. These events mark the beginning of a new time and the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary is taken somewhere in the middle of this drawn out process. It is taken at a palaeomagnetic change, which is convenient, but this does not appear to be close to an important climatic or faunal change. Ten faunal events are recognized in the period from about 1.2 to 0.5 Ma. The event closest to the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary is one of the minor events and up to now it is recorded in only few localities, principally in TD8.

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“…Several field campaigns during the 1980s and recent excavations (2011 and 2013) carried out by IsIPU and Earth Science Department team of "Sapienza Universit a di Roma" provided a rich collection of large mammal remains. Bellucci et al (2012Bellucci et al ( , 2013 started the study of all the fauna, including also small mammal remains, and gave a possible age of the faunal assemblage around 2.1 Ma.…”

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The last Antilopini bovids from the Early Pleistocene of Italy

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2015

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The site of Coste San Giacomo (Early Pleistocene, central Italy): Palaeoenvironmental analysis and biochronological overview

Cited by 51 publications

References 33 publications

Paleoenvironments and climatic changes in the Italian Peninsula during the Early Pleistocene: evidence from dental wear patterns of the ungulate community of Coste San Giacomo

Paleoenvironments and climatic changes in the Italian Peninsula during the Early Pleistocene: evidence from dental wear patterns of the ungulate community of Coste San Giacomo

Faunas from Atapuerca at the Early–Middle Pleistocene limit: The ungulates from level TD8 in the context of climatic change

The last Antilopini bovids from the Early Pleistocene of Italy

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