Dawid A. Iurino

University of Milan

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Raffaele Sardella

Sapienza University of Rome

Marco Cherin

University of Perugia

Beniamino Mecozzi

Sapienza University of Rome

Luca Bellucci

University of Florence

Ilaria Mazzini

Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering

Alessio Iannucci

University of Tübingen

Sofia Menconero

Sapienza University of Rome

Jacopo Conti

Sapienza University of Rome

Giovanni Boschian

University of Johannesburg

Fidelis T. Masao

University of Dar es Salaam

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Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Neurocranial anatomy of Sus arvernensis (Suidae, Mammalia) from Collepardo (Early Villafranchian; central Italy): taxonomic and biochronological implications

Figshare (2021)

Alessio Iannucci Luca Bellucci Jacopo Conti Ilaria Mazzini Beniamino Mecozzi

Suidae remains recovered from the late Pliocene site of Collepardo (Latium, central Italy) are described and assigned to Sus arvernensis, a small-sized Ruscinian to Early Villafranchian (MN14-MN16a) species. In Italy, S. arvernensis only occurs in the Triversa Faunal Unit (MN16a), supporting the recently revised chronology of Collepardo. CT-scan methods are used to virtually extract and analyse a newly discovered neurocranium, providing the content for the first inner cranial description carried out on an extinct Suidae. Our analysis reveals that S. arvernensis has an anteroposteriorly elongated and dorsoventrally flat cerebrum, similar to that of the Asian Babyrousa babyrussa and the African Hylochoerus meinertzhageni. These species substantially differ in size and are representatives of two widely diverging phylogenetic clades, excluding relatively simple evolutionary or allometric explanations for brain morphology in Suidae.

10.6084/m9.figshare.14798292

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The Late Pleistocene European badger Meles meles from Grotta Laceduzza (Brindisi, Apulia, Southern Italy): the analysis of the morphological and biometric variability

The Science of Nature (2019)

Beniamino Mecozzi Donato Coppola Dawid A. Iurino Raffaele Sardella Anna Maria De Marinis

Meles

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Mustelidae

Early Pleistocene

10.1007/s00114-019-1604-2

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Digital Cranial Endocasts of the Extinct Sloth Glossotherium robustum (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Argentina: Description and Comparison with the Extant Sloths

Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2018)

Alberto Boscaini Dawid A. Iurino Raffaele Sardella G. Tirao Timothy J. Gaudin

Endocast

Sloth

Xenarthra

Neurocranium

Rostrum

Osteology

10.1007/s10914-018-9441-1

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CT scanning analysis of Megantereon whitei (Carnivora, Machairodontinae) from Monte Argentario (Early Pleistocene, central Italy): evidence of atavistic teeth

The Science of Nature (2014)

Dawid A. Iurino Raffaele Sardella

Early Pleistocene

10.1007/s00114-014-1249-0

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New Radiocarbon Dating Results from the Upper Paleolithic–Mesolithic Levels in Grotta Romanelli (Apulia, Southern Italy)

Radiocarbon (2019)

Lucio Calcagnile Raffaele Sardella Ilaria Mazzini Francesca Giustini Mauro Brilli

ABSTRACT In this paper, we present the results of the accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) dating campaign performed on samples selected from different levels in Grotta Romanelli (Castro, Italy). Grotta Romanelli is one of the key sites for the chronology of Middle Pleistocene–Holocene in Mediterranean region. After the first excavation campaigns carried out in the first decades of the 1900s, the cave has been systematically re-excavated only since 2015. During the last excavation campaigns different faunal remains were selected and submitted for 14 C dating in order to confirm the chronology of the cave with a higher resolution. Isotopic ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) measurements were also carried out on faunal remains.

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Accelerator mass spectrometry

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Radiometric dating

10.1017/rdc.2019.8

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A NEW CRANIUM OFCROCODYLUS ANTHROPOPHAGUS FROM OLDUVAI GORGE, NORTHERN TANZANIA

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (2021)

Beatrice Azzarà Giovanni Boschian Christopher A. Brochu Massimo Delfino Dawid A. Iurino

Olduvai Gorge (northern Tanzania) is one of the best known and most iconic palaeontological and archaeological sites in the world. In more than a century of research it has yielded an impressive record of fossils and stone tools which stands as a compendium of human evolution in the context of environmental changes of East Africa in the last 2 Ma. Recent field work in the DK site at Olduvai lead to the retrieval of a partial crocodile cranium nicknamed Black Sun because it was discovered during an annular solar eclipse. The specimen is here described and compared with extinct and extant African crocodylids. The new cranium can be referred to Crocodylus anthropophagus, a Pleistocene species hitherto found only in Olduvai Gorge. Thanks to the good preservation of the skull table, its morphology is here characterised for the first time. Black Sun represents to date the earliest (ca. 1.9–1.85 Ma) and the most informative cranium of C. anthropophagus in the fossil record. Our phylogenetic analysis supports a strict relationship between C. anthropophagus and Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, a large species from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Turkana Basin (Kenya). These two sister taxa share a combination of characters which places them at the base of Crocodylus, providing an intriguing element to the debate on the African or extra-African origin of this genus.

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10.13130/2039-4942/15771

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Revised description of the late MioceneHyaenictitherium namaquensis(Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from As Sahabi (North Africa, Libya)

Historical Biology (2021)

Dawid A. Iurino Alessio Iannucci Jacopo Conti Beniamino Mecozzi Raffaele Sardella

An updated description and revision of a left hemimandible assigned to Hyaenictitherium namaquensis, a dog-like hyaena from the late Miocene locality of As Sahabi (Libya, North Africa), is here provided. This fossil is part of the historical collection discovered by Carlo Petrocchi, the Italian researcher who excavated the site in the 1930s. The As Sahabi Hyaenictitherium represents the northernmost occurrence of H. namaquensis in Africa and one of the most informative evidence of this species known to date. The hemimandible has been digitised using photogrammetric techniques, morphological and biometric analyses have been carried out taking into account the African record of Hyaenictitherium.

10.1080/08912963.2021.2007529

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Acinonyx pardinensis (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Pantalla (Italy): predatory behavior and ecological role of the giant Plio–Pleistocene cheetah

Quaternary Science Reviews (2014)

Marco Cherin Dawid A. Iurino Raffaele Sardella Lorenzo Rook

Acinonyx jubatus

Plio-Pleistocene

Early Pleistocene

10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.01.004

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Late Pleistocene Mediterranean lynx remains from Avenc del Marge del Moro (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Historical Biology (2022)

Clàudia Tura-Poch María Prat-Vericat Leonardo Sorbelli Isaac Rufí Alberto Boscaini

During 2011, an international team of scientists successfully obtained for the first-time paleoDNA data from different samples of Lynx remains from the Iberian Peninsula. These results showed that these remains belonged to the species Lynx pardinus, which is, at present, one of the most critically endangered felids. One of the remains sampled in the aforementioned study comes from a small chasm called Avenc del Marge del Moro in the Garraf Massif, with an estimated absolute chronology of 21 ka. Further morphological studies reinforced the last evidence, corroborating the presence of Lynx pardinus from the Early to Late Pleistocene in Southern Europe. Here, we provide for the first time a detailed description of the lynx remains from Avenc del Marge del Moro, which consist of a remarkably complete fossil cranium, as well as several dentognathic and postcranial remains.In the light of the evidence reported the last 10 years for fossil L. pardinus and its past distribution throughout southern France and the Iberian and Italian Peninsulas, we further suggest a formal change of the vernacular name of this species to ‘Mediterranean lynx’. This also provides novel insight for future reintroduction opportunities of this species alongside the north Mediterranean coast in order to enhance its survival possibilities in wild ecosystems.

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Peninsula

10.1080/08912963.2022.2043292

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Neurocranial anatomy of Sus arvernensis (Suidae, Mammalia) from Collepardo (Early Villafranchian; central Italy): taxonomic and biochronological implications

Historical Biology (2021)

Alessio Iannucci Luca Bellucci Jacopo Conti Ilaria Mazzini Beniamino Mecozzi

(2022). Neurocranial anatomy of Sus arvernensis (Suidae, Mammalia) from Collepardo (Early Villafranchian; central Italy): taxonomic and biochronological implications. Historical Biology: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 108-120.

Neurocranium

Suidae

10.1080/08912963.2021.1902999

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