Systematic revision of hippopotamid remains from the Casino basin, Tuscany, Italy

 

Roberta Martino¹, Johannes Pignatti¹, Lorenzo Rook² & Luca Pandolfi²

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy; 

R. Martino: roberta.aska@gmail.com;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5749-3454
J. Pignatti: johannes.pignatti@uniroma1.it; 
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5172-1962

² Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze 50121, Italy; 

L. Rook: lorenzo.rook@unifi.it;  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8923-5428

L. Pandolfi: luca.pandolfi@unifi.it;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-4126

 

How to cite: Martino et al. (2020). Systematic revision of hippopotamid remains from the Casino basin, Tuscany, Italy. Fossilia, Volume 2020: 29-31. https://doi.org/10.32774/FosRepPal.2020.0608


Bullet-Points Abstract
  • Pantanelli (1879) described hippopotamid remains from the Casino basin.
  • Joleaud (1920) ascribed the remains to the new species Hex. pantanellii.
  • Boisserie (2005) dubiously attributed the material to the genus Hexaprotodon?.
  • The remains collected from the Casino basin are scarce and not diagnostic. 
  • The specimens should be, more prudently, assigned to Hippopotamidae indet.

Keywords: Late Miocene; Casino basin; Hippopotamidae.


 
 

Fig. 1. Illustration made by Pantanelli (1879) on the left and the real morphology of the mandibular fragment, MSNAF2821 collected from the Casino Basin and stored at Accademia dei Fisiocritici at Siena, on the right. Not in scale.


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