In the summer of 2009, four molars and two tusks, of a single individual of Mammuthus meridionalis, were discovered at Campo di Pile (L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Central Italy) in a fluvial beach sediments of a depositional sequence dated to the late Early Pleistocene. A new fragmentary tusk of a second individual has been recently discovered not far from the former. In the L’Aquila Basin, southern mammoth remains have been already reported, in the nearby Campo di Pile, at Madonna della Strada-Scoppito, where a complete skeleton of M. meridionalis was found in sediments dating to the pre-Jaramillo Early Pleistocene, while some other isolated remains have been recorded at Rocca Santo Stefano and Colle Mancino. During the early Middle Pleistocene Mammuthus (? M. trogontherii) and Palaeoloxodon co-occurred in the faunal assemblage of Pagliare di Sassa. The Campo di Pile findings can confidently be regarded as intermediate in age between the Madonna della Strada and Pagliare di Sassa ones. Ongoing research on the Campo di Pile site contributes to enhancing our knowledge of the Quaternary fauna and paleoenvironmental evolution of L’Aquila Basin.

Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) from Campo di Pile (L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Central Italy)

TALLINI, MARCO
2012-01-01

Abstract

In the summer of 2009, four molars and two tusks, of a single individual of Mammuthus meridionalis, were discovered at Campo di Pile (L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Central Italy) in a fluvial beach sediments of a depositional sequence dated to the late Early Pleistocene. A new fragmentary tusk of a second individual has been recently discovered not far from the former. In the L’Aquila Basin, southern mammoth remains have been already reported, in the nearby Campo di Pile, at Madonna della Strada-Scoppito, where a complete skeleton of M. meridionalis was found in sediments dating to the pre-Jaramillo Early Pleistocene, while some other isolated remains have been recorded at Rocca Santo Stefano and Colle Mancino. During the early Middle Pleistocene Mammuthus (? M. trogontherii) and Palaeoloxodon co-occurred in the faunal assemblage of Pagliare di Sassa. The Campo di Pile findings can confidently be regarded as intermediate in age between the Madonna della Strada and Pagliare di Sassa ones. Ongoing research on the Campo di Pile site contributes to enhancing our knowledge of the Quaternary fauna and paleoenvironmental evolution of L’Aquila Basin.
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