Il giacimento a vertebrati del Pleistocene superiore di San Giovanni in Sinis (Sardegna occidentale)
In this work a faunula of Tyrrhenian age from a brackish bed outcropping between the Tyrrhenian “panchina” and the Würmian aeolian dune at San Giovanni in Sinis (Oristano, Sardinia) are examined. The following species are present: Emys orbicularis, Mauremys cf. caspica, Coluber sp., Megaceros sp., Tyrrhenicola henseli, Prolagus sp. The presence of Mauremys cf. caspica, absent today in the herpetofauna of the island, is very interesting. The systematic position of the megacerine deer of Sardinia...