Just a few: rodents and lagomorphs in the Plio-Pleistocene fossil record of the Upper Valdarno Basin

Lorenzo Rook(*) & Chiara Angelone(**)
(*) Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze. Via La Pira, 4 - 50125 Firenze (Italy). E-mail: lorenzo.rook@unifi.it (**) Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICP, Campus de la UAB s/n, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona (Spain). E-mail: angelone@uniroma3.it

The Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate fossil record of the Upper Valdarno Basin (Tuscany, Italy) is well known because of the large mammal collections. Although the small mammals have a documentation that is not even comparable with that of the large mammals; their record from Upper Valdarno Basin is known since early 1800's papers and includes a number of type specimen of species named by early researchers. We present here an overview of the rodents and lagomorphs distribution within the stratigraphic framework of the Upper Valdarno Basin.

Upper Valdarno Basin, Villányian, Biharian, Toringian, Pleistocene