Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 41(1) 1998

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VOL 41(1) 1998

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Macroneomys, Visogliano, Italy, Middle Pleistocene

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Macroneomys sp. (Soricidae, Mammalia) from Visogliano Shelter (Trieste, Northern Italy), a Middle Pleistocene human occupation site

• Flaviano FANFANI

Abstract:

In this paper the remains of Macroneomys (Soricidae, Mammalia) from the de­posit of Visogliano Shelter (Karst of Trieste, Northern Italy), an important human occupa­tion site of the Middle Pleistocene, are described. This genus is reported from the late Early and early Middle Pleistocene from Central Europe, from France and further for the first time from Italy. This new evidence suggests that some fossil shrews, previously at­tributed to Nesiolites, from Northern Italian localities may actually have belonged to the same genus.