Le grotte di Baida (Palermo): geomorfologia e palentologia

• Main Author: Abbate, Rosario
• Other Authors: Università del Salento - Coordinamento SIBA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Coordinamento SIBA - Università del Salento 1970
• Subjects: Palermo; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://siba-ese.unile.it/index.php/thalassiasal/article/view/i15910725v30p5; https://doi.org/10.1285/i15910725v30p5

ItIl territorio collinare di Baida (Palermo) è caratterizzato dalla presenza di alcune grotte che sono interessanti per la presenza di reperti fossili a vertebrati continentali del Quaternario. L’Autore, dopo alcune notizie storiche sul sito e un inquadramento geologico e morfologico, evidenzia gli aspetti del carsismo e le caratteristiche dei depositi fossiliferi.EnA morphologic surveying of the carbonatic Baida territory (near Palermo) is proposed. Baida is characterized by the presence of some cavities that are interesting also for the presence of terrestrial vertebrate fossils (Elephas falconeri, E. mnaidriensis, Hyena crocuta, Sus scrofa, Equus hydruntinu, Canis lupus, Dama dama, Cervus elaphus, Leitha melitensis, L. cartei, Ursus cfr. arctos, Bos sp., Capra sp.). Such deposits are referred to Quaternary Period. From the speleological point of view the more important cavity is the Grotta delle Quattro Arie, from the nearly horizontal course and approximately 150 m long, while the Grotta di Luparello is known since the 1899 for the wealth of terrestrial fossils of Quaternary period that have been found. After a geologic and morphologic setting, the Author emphasizes the aspects of karst and the characteristics of the paleontological patrimony preserved in several national and international Collections.