The Youngest European Record of the Chelonian Family Trionychidae (Calabrian, Central Italy) Offers New Clues on the Quaternary Extirpation History of the Softshell Turtles
We report on the geologically youngest occurrence of the softshell turtle family Trionychidae in Europe, from middle Calabrian (Emilian) strata cropping out at Montalto, Pisa Province (Tuscany, central Italy). This record indicates that the softshell turtles survived well past the glacial pulse at c...
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| author | Alberto Collareta Simone Casati Edoardo Terranova Francesco Nobile Giulia Bosio Andrea Di Cencio Giovanni Coletti |
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| description | We report on the geologically youngest occurrence of the softshell turtle family Trionychidae in Europe, from middle Calabrian (Emilian) strata cropping out at Montalto, Pisa Province (Tuscany, central Italy). This record indicates that the softshell turtles survived well past the glacial pulse at ca. 1.8 Ma. That the most recent finds of Trionychidae all over Europe come from mainland Italy further evokes the role of the Apennine peninsula as a refugium for humid-dwelling herpetofaunas through most of the Plio-Pleistocene. Reduced humidity associated with the intensified cool stages at the beginning of the Early–Middle Pleistocene Transition may have been behind the demise of the last European softshell turtles. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-75f3cb505f7c4fc69abbe080ccbd0dc62025-08-20T01:55:31ZengMDPI AGGeosciences2076-32632024-09-0114923910.3390/geosciences14090239The Youngest European Record of the Chelonian Family Trionychidae (Calabrian, Central Italy) Offers New Clues on the Quaternary Extirpation History of the Softshell TurtlesAlberto Collareta0Simone Casati1Edoardo Terranova2Francesco Nobile3Giulia Bosio4Andrea Di Cencio5Giovanni Coletti6Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, ItalyGruppo AVIS Mineralogia e Paleontologia Scandicci, Piazza Vittorio Veneto 1, Badia a Settimo, 50018 Scandicci, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, ItalyGruppo AVIS Mineralogia e Paleontologia Scandicci, Piazza Vittorio Veneto 1, Badia a Settimo, 50018 Scandicci, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Terra, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milan, ItalyWe report on the geologically youngest occurrence of the softshell turtle family Trionychidae in Europe, from middle Calabrian (Emilian) strata cropping out at Montalto, Pisa Province (Tuscany, central Italy). This record indicates that the softshell turtles survived well past the glacial pulse at ca. 1.8 Ma. That the most recent finds of Trionychidae all over Europe come from mainland Italy further evokes the role of the Apennine peninsula as a refugium for humid-dwelling herpetofaunas through most of the Plio-Pleistocene. Reduced humidity associated with the intensified cool stages at the beginning of the Early–Middle Pleistocene Transition may have been behind the demise of the last European softshell turtles.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/14/9/239Early–Middle Pleistocene TransitionEarly PleistoceneEmilianFaugliaLate VillafranchianMontalto |
| spellingShingle | Alberto Collareta Simone Casati Edoardo Terranova Francesco Nobile Giulia Bosio Andrea Di Cencio Giovanni Coletti The Youngest European Record of the Chelonian Family Trionychidae (Calabrian, Central Italy) Offers New Clues on the Quaternary Extirpation History of the Softshell Turtles Geosciences Early–Middle Pleistocene Transition Early Pleistocene Emilian Fauglia Late Villafranchian Montalto |
| title | The Youngest European Record of the Chelonian Family Trionychidae (Calabrian, Central Italy) Offers New Clues on the Quaternary Extirpation History of the Softshell Turtles |
| title_full | The Youngest European Record of the Chelonian Family Trionychidae (Calabrian, Central Italy) Offers New Clues on the Quaternary Extirpation History of the Softshell Turtles |
| title_fullStr | The Youngest European Record of the Chelonian Family Trionychidae (Calabrian, Central Italy) Offers New Clues on the Quaternary Extirpation History of the Softshell Turtles |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Youngest European Record of the Chelonian Family Trionychidae (Calabrian, Central Italy) Offers New Clues on the Quaternary Extirpation History of the Softshell Turtles |
| title_short | The Youngest European Record of the Chelonian Family Trionychidae (Calabrian, Central Italy) Offers New Clues on the Quaternary Extirpation History of the Softshell Turtles |
| title_sort | youngest european record of the chelonian family trionychidae calabrian central italy offers new clues on the quaternary extirpation history of the softshell turtles |
| topic | Early–Middle Pleistocene Transition Early Pleistocene Emilian Fauglia Late Villafranchian Montalto |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/14/9/239 |
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