Villafranchian

Villafranchian age (

The Villafranchian is sub-divided into six faunal units based on the localities of Triversa, Montopoli, Saint-Vallier, Olivola, Tasso and Farnetta.[2]^: 149

A major division of both geological deposits and time, the Villafranchian is significant because the earliest hominids that clearly evolved into modern man (the

Many animals and their extinct ancestors evolved during the Villafranchian, including the Red fox, Least weasel, Moorhen, Etruscan bear, and Panthera gombaszoegensis.

The beginning of the Villafranchian is typically defined by the first appearance of the bovid genus

References

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2. ^ ^{a b} The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary edited by John A. Van Couvering. Cambridge University Press 1997
3. ^ Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology, edited by Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, Mikael Fortelius
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Villafranchian". archaeologywordsmith.com. Archived from the original on 2012-06-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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