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Insights on the opening of the Galerian mammal migration pathway from magnetostratigraphy of the Pleistocene marine-continental transition in the Arda River section (northern Italy)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Edoardo Monesi ,
Giovanni Muttoni ,
Giancarlo Scardia ,
Fabrizio Felletti ,
Fabio Bona ,
Benedetto Sala ,
Fabrizio Tremolada ,
Carlo Francou  and
Gianluca Raineri
Edoardo Monesi*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universitàa di Milano, via Mangiagalli 34, I-20133, Milano, Italy
Giovanni Muttoni
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universitàa di Milano, via Mangiagalli 34, I-20133, Milano, Italy
Giancarlo Scardia
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, 13506-900, Brazil
Fabrizio Felletti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universitàa di Milano, via Mangiagalli 34, I-20133, Milano, Italy
Fabio Bona
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universitàa di Milano, via Mangiagalli 34, I-20133, Milano, Italy Museo Geologico “G. Cortesi”, via Sforza Caolzio 57, 29014, Castell’Arquato, Italy
Benedetto Sala
Affiliation:
Museo di Paleontologia e Preistoria, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Corso Ercole I d’Este 32, 44121, Ferrara, Italy
Fabrizio Tremolada
Affiliation:
RPS Energy, Goldsworth House, Denton Way, Goldsworth Park, GU213LG, Woking, UK
Carlo Francou
Affiliation:
Museo Geologico “G. Cortesi”, via Sforza Caolzio 57, 29014, Castell’Arquato, Italy
Gianluca Raineri
Affiliation:
Ente di Gestione dei Parchi dell’Emilia Occidentale, Piazza G Ferrari 5, 43013, Langhiano, Italy
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*Corresponding author. E-mail address:edoardo.monesi@unimi.it(E. Monesi)
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Abstract

We investigated the magnetostratigraphy of the Arda River section (northern Italy) where the transition from marine to continental sedimentation occurring in the Po River basin during the Pleistocene is registered. Four magnetic polarity reversals were used to construct an age model of sedimentation aided by marine biostratigraphy and tied to a standard δ18O curve from the literature. The section spans from the Olduvai subchron (1.94-1.78 Ma) across the Jaramillo subchron (1.07-0.99 Ma) up to the Brunhes—Matuyama boundary (0.78 Ma). The onset of continental deposition occurred during marine isotope stage (MIS) 30 at ∼1.04 Ma. An association of Villafranchian and Early Galerian mammals, including Sus strozzii and Ursus dolinensis, has been found in the continental sediments dated to MIS 29-27 (∼0.99 Ma). Above follows a prominent fluvial conglomerate attributed to the first major low stand of the Pleistocene culminating with MIS 22 at ∼0.9 Ma during the late Early Pleistocene climate turnover (EPT). These and other data from the literature are used to reconstruct the onset of continental deposition in the greater Po basin and shed light on the opening of the migration pathway that brought far-traveled Galerian mammal immigrants to enter Europe for the first time during the EPT.

Keywords

ItalyArda RiverPleistoceneMagnetostratigraphyBrunhesJaramilloGalerian mammals
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Quaternary Research , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , September 2016 , pp. 220 - 231
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Copyright © American Quaternary Association 2016

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