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What Does the “Elephant-Equus” Event Mean Today? Reflections on Mammal Dispersal Events around the Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary and the Flexible Ambiguity of Biochronology by Iannucci, Alessio, Sardella, Raffaele

“…The dispersal of primitive elephantines and monodactyl equids in Eurasia has long been regarded as representative of a substantial turnover in mammal faunas,…”
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A Middle Pleistocene wolf from central Italy provides insights on the first occurrence of Canis lupus in Europe by Iurino, Dawid A., Mecozzi, Beniamino, Iannucci, Alessio, Moscarella, Alfio, Strani, Flavia, Bona, Fabio, Gaeta, Mario, Sardella, Raffaele

“…Here, we describe a partial cranium of a large canid dated at 406.5 ± 2.4 ka from the Middle Pleistocene of Ponte Galeria (Rome, Italy). The sample represents…”
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Suidae Transition at the Miocene-Pliocene Boundary: a Reassessment of the Taxonomy and Chronology of Propotamochoerus provincialis by Iannucci, Alessio, Cherin, Marco, Sorbelli, Leonardo, Sardella, Raffaele

“…The Miocene-Pliocene (Turolian-Ruscinian) transition represents a fundamental interval in the evolution of Euro-Mediterranean paleocommunities. In fact, the…”
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Dietary response of early Pleistocene ungulate communities to the climate oscillations of the Gelasian/Calabrian transition in Central Italy by Strani, Flavia, DeMiguel, Daniel, Bellucci, Luca, Sardella, Raffaele

“…Climatic oscillations at the Gelasian/Calabrian transition modified terrestrial palaeoenvironmental settings in the European region. A gradual drop in global…”
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Reinforcing the idea of an early dispersal of Hippopotamus amphibius in Europe: Restoration and multidisciplinary study of the skull from the Middle Pleistocene of Cava Montanari (Rome, central Italy) by Mecozzi, Beniamino, Iannucci, Alessio, Mancini, Marco, Tentori, Daniel, Cavasinni, Chiara, Conti, Jacopo, Messina, Mattia Yuri, Sarra, Alex, Sardella, Raffaele

“…A skull of Hippopotamus recovered from the area of Tor di Quinto, within the urban area of Rome (central Italy) is here redescribed. Despite being one of the…”
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Late Early to late Middle Pleistocene medium-sized deer from the Italian Peninsula: implications for taxonomy and biochronology by Mecozzi, Beniamino, Sardella, Raffaele, Breda, Marzia

“…The taxonomy of Quaternary medium-sized deer from Europe rests mainly on antler morphology, while adequate dental and postcranial diagnostic features are…”
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Late persistence and deterministic extinction of “humid thermophilous plant taxa of East Asian affinity” (HUTEA) in southern Europe by Martinetto, Edoardo, Momohara, Arata, Bizzarri, Roberto, Baldanza, Angela, Delfino, Massimo, Esu, Daniela, Sardella, Raffaele

“…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…”
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Old African fossils provide new evidence for the origin of the American crocodiles by Delfino, Massimo, Iurino, Dawid A., Mercurio, Bruno, Piras, Paolo, Rook, Lorenzo, Sardella, Raffaele

“…Molecular and morphological phylogenies concur in indicating that the African lineages formerly referred to Crocodylus niloticus are the sister taxon the four…”
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The origin of early Acheulean expansion in Europe 700 ka ago: new findings at Notarchirico (Italy) by Moncel, Marie-Hélène, Santagata, Carmen, Pereira, Alison, Nomade, Sébastien, Voinchet, Pierre, Bahain, Jean-Jacques, Daujeard, Camille, Curci, Antonio, Lemorini, Cristina, Hardy, Bruce, Eramo, Giacomo, Berto, Claudio, Raynal, Jean-Paul, Arzarello, Marta, Mecozzi, Beniamino, Iannucci, Alessio, Sardella, Raffaele, Allegretta, Ignazio, Delluniversità, Emanuela, Terzano, Roberto, Dugas, Pauline, Jouanic, Gwenolé, Queffelec, Alain, d’Andrea, Andrea, Valentini, Rosario, Minucci, Eleonora, Carpentiero, Laura, Piperno, Marcello

“…Notarchirico (Southern Italy) has yielded the earliest evidence of Acheulean settlement in Italy and four older occupation levels have recently been unearthed,…”
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Stratigraphic reassessment of Grotta Romanelli sheds light on Middle-Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments and human settling in the Mediterranean by Pieruccini, Pierluigi, Forti, Luca, Mecozzi, Beniamino, Iannucci, Alessio, Yu, Tsai-Luen, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Bona, Fabio, Lembo, Giuseppe, Muttillo, Brunella, Sardella, Raffaele, Mazzini, Ilaria

“…During the last century, Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy) has been a reference site for the European Late Pleistocene stratigraphy, due to its…”
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THE BISON SAMPLE FROM THE EARLY MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SITE OF CONTRADA MONTICELLI (APULIA, SOUTHERN ITALY) by STEFANELLI, DARIO, SORBELLI, LEONARDO, MECOZZI, BENIAMINO, MAIORANO, PATRIZIA, MARINO, MARIA, SARDELLA, RAFFAELE

“…Several craniodental and postcranial Bovinae fossil remains coming from the early Middle Pleistocene Contrada Monticelli (CM) site (Castellana Grotte, BA) and…”
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Author Correction: Stratigraphic reassessment of Grotta Romanelli sheds light on Middle-Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments and human settling in the Mediterranean by Pieruccini, Pierluigi, Forti, Luca, Mecozzi, Beniamino, Iannucci, Alessio, Yu, Tsai-Luen, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Bona, Fabio, Lembo, Giuseppe, Muttillo, Brunella, Sardella, Raffaele, Mazzini, Ilaria

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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 by Boscaini, Alberto, Iurino, Dawid A., Sardella, Raffaele, Tirao, German, Gaudin, Timothy J., Pujos, François

“…The internal cranial morphology of the terrestrial sloth Glossotherium robustum is described here based on a neurocranium from the late Pleistocene of the…”
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A REAPPRAISAL OF THE PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS FROM THE KARST INFILLING DEPOSITS OF THE MAGLIE AREA (LECCE, APULIA, SOUTHERN ITALY) by BENIAMINO MECOZZI, LUCA BELLUCCI, FRANCESCA GIUSTINI, ALESSIO IANNUCCI, DAWID ADAM IURINO, ILARIA MAZZINI, FLAVIA STRANI, RAFFAELE SARDELLA

“…The karst fissures known as “ventarole”, located in the Salentine Peninsula (southernmost part of Apulia, Italy), were first studied by Mirigliano in 1941…”
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Braincase With Natural Endocast of a Juvenile Rhinocerotinae From the Late Middle Pleistocene Site of Melpignano (Apulia, Southern Italy) by Iurino, Dawid A., Conti, Jacopo, Mecozzi, Beniamino, Sardella, Raffaele

“…Cranial remains of juvenile fossil rhinoceroses are rarely described in literature and very few is known about the ontogenetic development of their inner…”
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Middle Pleistocene Hippopotamuses from the Italian Peninsula: An Overview by Mecozzi, Beniamino, Iannucci, Alessio, Arzarello, Marta, Carpentieri, Marco, Moncel, Marie-Hélène, Peretto, Carlo, Sala, Benedetto, Sardella, Raffaele

“…Our work presents an updated overview of the Italian Middle Pleistocene records of hippopotamuses, including the two species Hippopotamus antiquus and…”
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Dietary Adaptations of Early and Middle Pleistocene Equids From the Anagni Basin (Frosinone, Central Italy) by Strani, Flavia, Pushkina, Diana, Bocherens, Hervé, Bellucci, Luca, Sardella, Raffaele, DeMiguel, Daniel

“…The intermontane Anagni Basin (Frosinone, central Italy) is an important region for Italian biochronology and paleoecology due to the presence of two rich…”
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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia): legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean by Sardella, Raffaele, Mazzini, Ilaria, Giustini, Francesca, Mecozzi, Beniamino, Brilli, Mauro, Iurino, Dawid Adam, Lembo, Giuseppe, Muttillo, Brunella, Massussi, Massimo, Sigari, Dario, Tucci, Sonia, Voltaggio, Mario

“…Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological…”
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New human fossil from the latest Pleistocene levels of Grotta Romanelli (Apulia, southern Italy) by Mecozzi, Beniamino, Buzi, Costantino, Iannucci, Alessio, Micarelli, Ileana, Bona, Fabio, Forti, Luca, Lembo, Giuseppe, Manzi, Giorgio, Mazzini, Ilaria, Muttillo, Brunella, Pieruccini, Pierluigi, Ranaldo, Filomena, Sigari, Dario, Sardella, Raffaele

“…Grotta Romanelli can be counted among the most interesting sites for the late Upper Palaeolithic of the Mediterranean area, since returned a consistent record…”
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Cranial Anatomy and Paleoneurology of the Extinct Sloth Catonyx tarijensis (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) From the Late Pleistocene of Oruro, Southwestern Bolivia by Boscaini, Alberto, Iurino, Dawid A., Mamani Quispe, Bernardino, Andrade Flores, Rubén, Sardella, Raffaele, Pujos, François, Gaudin, Timothy J.

“…Extinct scelidotheriine sloths are among the most peculiar fossil mammals from South America. In recent decades, the external cranial anatomy of Pleistocene…”
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