A review of the geologic sections and the faunal assemblages of Aurelian Mammal Age of Latium (Italy) in the light of a new chronostratigraphic framework

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Marra, F., Nomade, S., Pereira, A., Petronio, C., Salari, L., Sottili, G., Bahain, J. -J., Boschian, G., Di Stefano, G., Falguères, C., Florindo, F., Gaeta, M., Giaccio, B., Masotta, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: aggradational succession; Aurelian mammal age; biostratigraphy; chronostratigraphy; Latium; Middle Pleistocene; tephrostratigraphy; global and planetary change; ecology; evolution; behavior and systematic; archeology (arts and humanities); archeology; geology; Fontana; Guido; Torre; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1071355; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.007; http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-science-reviews/

The Aurelian Mammal Age for peninsular Italy was introduced on the basis of faunal assemblages mainly recovered at sites along the Via Aurelia west of Rome. These sites exposed a set of sedimentary deposits currently attributed to the Aurelia and to the Vitinia Formations correlated with MIS 9 and M...