Podere San Lorenzo
Basic information
Sample name: Podere San Lorenzo

Reference: M. Cherin, B. Azzara, M. Breda, A. Brobia Ansoleaga, C. Buzi, L. Pandolfi, and F. Pazzaglia. 2019. Large mammal remains from the Early Pleistocene site of Podere San Lorenzo (Perugia, central Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 125(2):489-515 [ER 4400]
Geography
Country: Italy

State: Perugia



Coordinate: 42° 58' 33" N, 12° 26' 21" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Max Ma: 2

Min Ma: 1.8

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: shown as about 2 km ESE of Deruta (basis of coordinate)
correlated with "the Olivola-Tasso Faunal Units (about 2.0–1.8 Ma)" based on biochronology and middle or late Villafranchian

Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: from "a sand and gravel quarry"
based on a nearby section, from "a fluvial depositional environment" with some specimens "from conglomerates" and others from "finer grained deposits" and probably "sand lenses"

Methods
Life forms: ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 38 specimens

Sampling comments: "discovered in the 1990s" and the quarry "is currently abandoned and completely covered by vegetation"
three hyaenid coprolites are also present

Metadata
Sample number: 4677

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2025-08-26 01:24:35

Modified: 2025-08-26 01:24:35

Abundance distribution
6 species
1 singleton
total count 38
geometric series index: 9.0
Fisher's α: 2.004
geometric series k: 0.5674
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7070
Shannon's H: 1.4711
Good's u: 0.9737
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Mammuthus cf. meridionalis17
Stephanorhinus etruscus4
plus 5 Stephanorhinus sp. specimens possibly belonging to this taxon
Equus stenonis3
Leptobos cf. etruscus4
Pseudodama nestii9
Sus strozzii1