Biochronology is the most widely used method for organizing the successions of continental
vertebrate faunas in geological time and for allowing the correlation of continental deposits …

Several terrestrial plant fossils found in the late Cenozoic of Europe belong to thermophilous
genera or infrageneric taxa which do not grow in this continent today, and are usually called …

Under conditions where buried wood is protected from microbial degradation and exposure
to oxygen or harsh chemical environments, the tissues may remain unmineralized. If the …

Several fruit and seed assemblages have been gathered from the Pliocene and Early
Pleistocene deposits of central Italy. Ongoing research on this material has led to the …

In questo lavoro vengono presentati nuovi dati sulla stratigrafia dei depositi sedimentari
della Media Valle del Tevere (MVT), viene presentata la Carta Geologica della Media Valle …

Dunarobba and Pietrafitta are two outstanding fossil sites, which provide us with a glimpse
on central Italian palaeoenvironments during two different time spans. The still poorly dated …

Mummified foliage, seeds and cones of Glyptostrobus europaeus (Brongniart) Unger
(Taxodiaceae, or Cupressaceae sl) are very common within muddy sediments embedding …

We report an unusual and rich decapod crustacean assemblage from the early Pliocene
(Zanclean), recently collected during the excavations of the “La Serra” quarry, located in La …

Palynological analyses from the long and continuous Fosso Bianco sedimentary succession
delineate the paleoenvironmental history of the continental deposits from the Tiberino basin …

A noteworthy, well-preserved non-marine mollusc fauna has been recorded from Middle
Pliocene silty sediments at Ceresole d'Alba (Piedmont, NW Italy), a site described by F …