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Il Quaternario Congresso AIQUA Italian Journal of Quaternary Sciences Il Quaternario Italiano: conoscenze e prospettive 24, (Abstract AIQUA, Roma 02/2011), 158 - 160 Roma 24 e 25 febbraio 2011 THE EARLY TO MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ITALIAN BOVIDAE: BIOCHRONOLOGY AND PALAEOECOLOGY Maria Rita Palombo 1,2, Federico Masini 3 & Roberto Rozzi 1 1 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università “Sapienza”, Roma, Italy 2 CNR, IGAG, Roma, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Geologia e Geodesia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy. Corresponding author: R. Rozzi <[email protected]> ABSTRACT: Palombo M.R., Masini F. & Rozzi R. The Early to Middle Pleistocene Italian Bovidae: biochronology and palaeoecology. (IT ISSN 0394-3356, 2011) Bovids are common elements in the Italian local faunal assemblages (LFAs), but their diversity and ecological role varied in LFAs as well as in faunal units (FUs) throughout the Early and Middle Pleistocene. Representatives of Bovini tribe are continuously present, albeit with different lineages, while “Caprini” are sporadically recorded by several genera, and Anti- lopini are the less represented. RIASSUNTO: Palombo M.R., Masini F. & Rozzi R. I Bovidi italiani del Pleistocene inferiore e medio: biocronologia e pa- leoecologia. (IT ISSN 0394-3356, 2011) Durante il Quaternario, i bovidi sono elementi comuni delle faune locali (LFAs) italiane, ma la loro diversità e i loro ruoli ecologici variano specialmente nel corso del Pleistocene inferiore e medio. I Bovini sono presenti in tutto l’intervallo di tempo considerato, sebbene con diversi generi e linee evolutive, mentre il record dei “Caprini” è discontinuo e gli Antilo- pini sono la tribù meno rappresentata. Key words: Bovidae, Early Pleistocene, Middle Pleistocene, Italy Parole chiave: Bovidae, Pleistocene inferiore, Pleistocene medio, Italia 1. INTRODUCTION The soundest documentation comes from the his- During the Quaternary, in Italy, as in Eurasia, bo- torical collections from the Upper Valdarno, Mon- vids are common elements in local faunal assem- topoli (Lower Valdarno), Olivola (Aulla basin), Triv- blages (LFAs), though the richness of the Italian ersa (San Paolo and Dusino), and from recent ex- Bovidae is less than in most European regions. cavations in Upper Valdarno, Pietrafitta (Tavernelle Their dispersion and commonness vary over time basin), the Chiana valley, and the Tiberino basin and across the peninsula due to a multiple set of (see GENTILI & MASINI, 2005). Leptobos was re- factors, including discontinuity in the fossil record, placed during the latest Villafranchian (Pirro FU) by ecological and taphonomical biases. A few Euro- the rather stout Bison (Eobison) degiulii, while the pean genera of different tribes, such as Saiga, Am- heavy and even larger Bison schoetensacki is re- motragus, Caprovis, Soergelia and Ovibos, are corded in the Galerian LFAs. At the beginning of missing (PALOMBO, 2009) as well as some species the Middle Pleistocene the large species Hemibos which seem to have been either endemic in the galerianus, derived from an Indian genus, is only North Eastern Mediterranean (Euthyceros thes- reported from the middle Galerian LFAs of the Ro- salicus, Antilope (= Parastrepsiceros) koufosi) or man basin. The auroch, Bos primigenius, ap- present even in the Black Sea area (Pontoceros peared a bit later in LFAs of the Isernia FU and ambiguus) (KOSTOPOULOS, 2006; CRÉGUT- became more and more abundant during the late BONNOURE, 2007). Conversely, two species either Middle and Late Pleistocene. The late Middle endemic (e.g. Hemibos galerianus) or rarely re- Pleistocene Bovini guild is characterized by the ported in Europe (e.g. Bubalus murrensis) are re- occurrence of the water buffalo Bubalus murrensis, corded in central Italy. and perhaps also by the spread of the steppe bi- son, Bison priscus. 2. THE FOSSIL RECORD Antilopini Bovini Only two representatives of this tribe are reported During most of the Early Pleistocene, the repre- in the Italian fossil record. The larger one, Gazella sentatives of the tribe are the large, but quite slen- borbonica, the single species of Gazella occurring der Leptobos present during the early to late Villa- in Southern Europe since the Ruscinian franchian with two sub-genera, Leptobos (KOSTOPOULOS, 2006), appeared in the Italian pen- (Leptobos) and Leptobos (Smertiobos), whose insula at the beginning of the Early Pleisocene and species provide an important part of the fossil is recorded in the middle Villafranchian, mainly in documentation of this genus in Europe (MASINI, central Italian LFAs. The anticlockwise spiral 1989; DUVERNOIS, 1990; GENTILI & MASINI, 2005). horned Gazellospira torticornis, a parkland dweller, The Early to Middle Pleistocene Italian Bovidae: ... 159 Table 1 – Integrated chronological scheme for the Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene Bovidae of the Italian peninsula. Schema cronologico integrato e distribuzione del record dei Bovidi italiani dal tardo Pliocene al Pleistocene superiore. 160 M.R. Palombo, F. Masini & R. Rozzi appeared later in the Gelasian, but survived most creased due to the appearance of both large and of the early late Villafranchian (Olivola, Tasso FU). very large Bovini (Hemibos galerianus, Bos primi- “Caprini” genius and then Bubalus murrensis) and Caprini, A representative of the enlarged Caprini sensu lato as well. Among the latter, Hemitragus bonali and tribe (see ROPIQUET & HASSANIN, 2005; BIBI et al., Ovis ammon antiqua are reported from a few early 2009 for a discussion), Hemitragus cf. H. orientalis, Middle Pleistocene sites, whereas Capra ibex and is first dubiously reported at the beginning of the Rupicapra, which appeared at the end of the Mid- Early Pleistocene in the Collepardo LFA (Montopoli dle Pleistocene, are very frequent throughout the FU) but the specimens have never been de- Late Pleistocene. scribed. 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