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    New human fossil from the latest Pleistocene levels of Grotta Romanelli (Apulia, southern Italy)

    Grotta Romanelli can be counted among the most interesting sites for the late Upper Palaeolithic of the Mediterranean area, since returned a consistent record of lithic artefacts, faunal remains, mobiliary and...

    Beniamino Mecozzi, Costantino Buzi in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2022)

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    First report of Sus strozzii (Suidae, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene of Hungary (Dunaalmás) and species distinction based on deciduous teeth

    Herein we describe a fragment of a mandible with a deciduous fourth premolar (dp4) from the Early Pleistocene locality of Dunaalmás, representing the first confirmed report of Sus strozzii from Hungary. The compa...

    Alessio Iannucci, Mihály Gasparik, Raffaele Sardella in The Science of Nature (2019)

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    The Late Pleistocene European badger Meles meles from Grotta Laceduzza (Brindisi, Apulia, Southern Italy): the analysis of the morphological and biometric variability

    In the last decades, many studies have focused on the description of fossil badger materials from Eurasia and several evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed. Nevertheless, the debate on taxonomy of the Lat...

    Beniamino Mecozzi, Donato Coppola, Dawid A. Iurino in The Science of Nature (2019)

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    Phylogenetic and functional implications of the ear region anatomy of Glossotherium robustum (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Argentina

    Several detailed studies of the external morphology of the ear region in extinct sloths have been published in the past few decades, and this anatomical region has proved extremely helpful in elucidating the p...

    Alberto Boscaini, Dawid A. Iurino, Guillaume Billet in The Science of Nature (2018)

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    CT scanning analysis of Megantereon whitei (Carnivora, Machairodontinae) from Monte Argentario (Early Pleistocene, central Italy): evidence of atavistic teeth

    CT scanning analysis applied to vertebrate palaeontology is providing an increasing number of data of great interest. This method can be used in many branches of palaeontology such as the investigation of all ...

    Dawid Adam Iurino, Raffaele Sardella in Naturwissenschaften (2014)

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    A Pathological Late Pleistocene canid from San Sidero (Italy): implications for social- and feeding-behaviour

    Evidence of diseases on vertebrate fossil bones can provide detailed information on many aspects of extinct animals. This study focused on pathological craniodental remains (left maxilla and dentary) referred ...

    Dawid Adam Iurino, Rosario Fico, Mauro Petrucci, Raffaele Sardella in Naturwissenschaften (2013)

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    Evidence of earliest human occurrence in Europe: the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)

    Some flint lithic artifacts were discovered in the fissure fillings of the well-known Pirro Nord site (Apulia, Southern Italy). The lithic industry, composed by three cores and some flakes, has been found to b...

    Marta Arzarello, Federica Marcolini, Giulio Pavia, Marco Pavia in Naturwissenschaften (2007)