New Evidences on the Hipparion sample from Il Casino (Siena, Late Miocene, Italy). Preliminary review

 

Omar Cirilli 1,2, Raymond Louis Bernor 3,4 & Lorenzo Rook 2

¹ Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, I-56126 Pisa, Italy; omar.cirilli@phd.unipi.it; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8478-1462

² Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze 50121, Italy; lorenzo.rook@unifi.it;  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8923-5428

³ College of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Howard University, Washington D.C. 20059, USA; rbernor@howard.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5118-5354  

⁴Human Origins Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 20013, USA.

 

How to cite: Cirilli et al. (2020). New Evidences on the Hipparion sample from Il Casino (Siena, Late Miocene, Italy). Preliminary review. Fossilia, Volume 2020: 9-11. https://doi.org/10.32774/FosRepPal.2020.0603


Bullet-Points Abstract
  • Late Miocene Hipparion from Italy.
  • The fossil record of Hippotherium malpassi from Central Italy.
  • Hippotherium cf. malpassi from the Late Miocene of Il Casino.

Keywords: Hipparion; Il Casino; Late Miocene; Italy.


 
 

Fig. 1. Anatomical nomenclature of upper and lower dentitions in the genus Hipparion; modified from Cirilli et al. (2020).


Fig. 2. A. Original Forsyth Major’s drawings of the Hipparion sample from Il Casino (1875); B. MSNAF2842, upper third premolar and un upper forth premolar in labial and occlusal view (modified from Rook & Bernor, 2013). C. Hippotherium malpassi from Monticino gypsum quarry (Brisighella, Emilia Romagna), occlusal view. D. Hippotherium malpassi from Baccinello V3 (Grosseto, Tuscany), labial and occlusal view (modified from Bernor et al., 2011). Scale bar 5 cm.

 

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