The Villafranchian mammal faunas from the Tiber River Basin (Umbria, central Italy)

Abstract

The paper reports on Pfio-PIeistocene mammal faunas from the Tiber Basin (central Italy). Almost all the fossiliferous localities are located in the south-western branch of the basin. Although available data are still scanty, four different mammal faunas referable to early (Triversa and Montopoli Faunal Units) and late Villafranchian and to eariy Galerian are recognizable.