Quaggiotto Ermanno

The Natural History and Archaeological Museum, Vicenza, Italia

We report the discovery of a valve of Euciroa arenosa (Rayneval in Appelius, 1871) in the Spanish lower Pliocene, species rarely reported and even less depicted previously in the Italian Pliocene. The family Euriciroidae Dall, 1895 is briefly mentioned. The image of the type species, E. elegantissima Dall, 1881, is shown

A diverse assemblage of bodily preserved sponges has been recovered from a lower Lutetian tuffite horizon in the Chiampo Valley, Lessini Mountains, Italy. The sponge assemblage is dominated by hexactinellids and lithistids. Using uniformitarian criteria, the composition of the assemblage suggests a water depth greater than 200 m. Sponges are often...

Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad 1831) is a species alien to the Mediterranean, native to brackish environments of the western Atlantic, considered an opportunistic species and a slow colonizer with low dispersal capacity (Kennedy, 2011b), but potentially harmful to the habitats where it settles. In areas where it has been accidentally introduced, i...

We investigate the generic attribution within Bathymodiolinae of various species of chemosymbiotic mussels. We come to the conclusion that these species belong to the genera Adipicola Dautzenberg, 1927 and Idasola Iredale, 1915. The two genera, often considered synonyms, present distinct morphological characters of the ligamental area. Additionally...

The presence of Jouannetia sp. (Bivalvia, Pholadidae) from the middle-late Eocene (Bartonian-Priabonian) of Orgiano and Alonte (Berici Mountains, Vicenza, northern Italy) is signalled. The specimens are preserved as an internal model inside limestone with coral, coralline algae, molluscs and crustaceans. The genus is new for the Eocene molluscs fau...

The sponge fauna from a lower Lutetian tuffite horizon in the Chiampo Valley, Lessini Mountains, north-eastern Italy, consists of 32 species: 15 hexactinellid and 17 demosponges (15 lithistids and 2 hypercalcified). Such fauna shows affinities with sponges from the Eocene of Spain and the Cretaceous of Germany. The stratigraphical range of taxa as...

Riassunto Con il presente lavoro, gli Autori continuano l'esposizio-ne delle specie appartenenti al genere Cerithium Bru-guière, 1789 (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae) presenti nel Mare Mediterraneo. In questo quinto contributo verrà trattato il C. repandum Monterosato, 1878 di cui viene confermata e definitivamente stabilita la data della descrizione orig...

Riassunto Con il presente lavoro, gli Autori continuano l'esposizio-ne delle specie appartenenti al genere Cerithium Bru-guière, 1789 (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae) presenti nel Mare Mediterraneo. In questo quinto contributo verrà trattato il C. repandum Monterosato, 1878 di cui viene confermata e definitivamente stabilita la data della descrizione orig...

The making and use of personal ornaments has been at the center of a vibrant debate on the origin of modern cognitive behavior associated with Anatomically Modern Humans within and outside Africa. The Aurignacian deposits of Fumane Cave (NE Italy) offer unique archaeological records in which it is possible to observe evidence of the main cultural s...

Some taxonomically troublesome nominal taxa of the rissoid genus Alvania Risso, 1826 are examined: Alvania disparilis Monterosato, 1890, A. peloritana (Aradas & Benoit, 1874), A. perversa F. Nordsieck, 1972 and A. dorbignyi (Audouin, 1826). The four species are here considered as valid, and for the sake of nomenclatural stability lectotypes of Alva...

Genus Cerithium Bruguière, 1789 (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae) in Mediterranean sea. 4. Cerithium lividulum Risso, 1826]. In the present paper, continue the work of describing the species of the genus Cerithium Bruguière, 1789 in the Mediterranean Sea, to illustrate the various morpha, and the description of the main morphological and ecological charact...

Alleryana 35 (1) p. 1-5 genn-giugno 2017 giugno 2017 Riassunto Con il presente lavoro si continua la descrizione delle specie del genere Cerithium Bruguière, 1789 (Gastropo-da: Cerithiidae) presenti nel Mare Mediterraneo, l'illu-strazione dei vari morpha e la descrizione delle princi-pali caratteristiche morfologiche ed ecologiche con ac-cenni alla...

In the present paper, the work of describing the species of the genus Cerithium Bruguière, 1789 in the Mediterranean Sea continue, to illustrate the various morpha, and to describe the main morphological and ecological characteristics with hints of the taxonomic history. In this 2st part are treated Cerithium alucastrum (Brocchi, 1814).

The present paper covers 77 species and six subspecies of naticid gastropods occurring in the Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene units of Northern Italy; all are described and commented on in the systematic account. Forty-two taxa are identified as formerly described ones; of these, 16 are associated with a generic name different from the previous one,...

Riassunto Vengono descritte le specie del Genere Cerithium Bru­ guière, 1789 (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae) presenti nel Mare Mediterraneo, se ne illustrano i vari morpha, si descrive brevemente l'ambiente e le caratteristiche morfologiche con accenni alla storia tassonomica. In questa 1 a parte si illustra il Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière, 1792 ed il C....

The present note wants to signal some materials recovery during a geologic excursion in the layer from the lower Oligocene at Ponte Valley what is located among Laverda and Ponte (Lusiana, Vicenza - Northern Italy). The level is constituted by benches of lignite marls, now not much visible and good part buried from the material soprastantis. The fa...

Stenoplax veneta Dell'Angelo & Palazzi, 1992 was described from the Lower Oligocene (Rupelian) of Case Soghe (Arcugnano, Vicenza), on the basis of four valves, the holotype (a tail valve) and three paratypes (a head and two tail valves). Only a tail valve (paratype) was figured in dorsal view, and so many characters of the species were not adequate...

The recent finding of fossil shells referable to Gibbula euomphala ? var. anodulosa Sacco, 1896 allowed the identity of Gibbula anodulosa Sacco, 1896 to be verified. It is a valid species, distinct from Gibbula euomphala Philippi, 1836, with which it was confused or synonymized. Other species from the Italian Plio-Pleistocene are comparated with G....

Based on teleoconch and, especially, protoconch features, the new genus Mifsudia is erected for Cima melitensis Mifsud,1998, and placed in the family Cimidae. The protoconch is hyperstrophic, as in the other cimids. At least, two European fossil species (Cima gantensis Bandel, 2005, from the Middle Eocene of Hungary end Murchisonella cf. obtusa Gou...

There are seven species of tertiary isopods known in Veneto: Palaega acuticauda Secretan, 1975, Palaega catulloi (De Zigno, 1861), Cirolana fabianii De Angeli & Rossi, 2006, Dynamella miettoi De Angeli & Lovato, 2011, Heterosphaeroma veronensis Secretan, 1975, Sphaeroma gasparellai De Angeli & Lovato, 2009, and Sphaeroma sp. New fossil specimens ha...

A scanty but varied ensemble of finds challenges the idea that Neandertal material culture was essentially static and did not include symbolic items. In this study we report on a fragmentary Miocene-Pliocene fossil marine shell, Aspamarginata, discovered in a Discoid Mousterian layer of the Fumane Cave, northern Italy, dated to at least 47.6-45.0 C...

Sketch section with evidence of the late Mousterian (A11-A5), Uluzzian (A4-A3) and the earliest Aurignacian layers (A2), with variable content in archaeological remains (increasing from light gray to dark gray and black). Center below, a section drawn 0,6m east of the main one (by M. Cremaschi & M. Peresani, redrawn by S. Muratori). (TIF)

Map of Fumane Cave with the excavated area of A9 unit indicated in gray. (JPG)

Three views of the context where the shell was found in unit A9 in the rear of the cave. Above, the entrance of cave during the fieldwork. Below, unit A9 in square 147 with flakes and bones embedded in dark sediment. (PDF)

Available radiometric dates for the Mousterian units of Fumane Cave (data from [40,41]). (XLS)

A single intermediate chiton valve has been found at the Grola Quarry (Cornedo Vicentino, Vicenza, NE Italy), a classic locality of Veneto region attributed to the Lutetian stage (middle Eocene), in the so-called "San Giovanni Ilarione Horizon". The valve is incomplete and poorly preserved in volcaniclastic Matrix, thus the articulamentum is not vi...

Résumé: Velates perversus, initialement décrit de l’Yprésien parisien, sous ce nom ou celui de Velates Schmideli, et connu d’autres gisements éocènes sous de nombreux synonymes prélinnéens ou ultérieurs, est l’une des espèces de mollusques fossiles les plus célèbres du Tertiaire. Cependant, la caractérisation du genre Velates et des espèces qui lui...

Two letters in the Museo Naturalistico Archeologico of Vicenza archive testify the loan of palaeonthological collections by Museo Civico of Vicenza to the Sicilian geologist Antonio De Gregorio. The specimens werw asked for the publication of Fauna di S. Giovanni Ilarione, 1880, and for the second volume which, howevwr, was never published.

It is introduced the first part of the modernized catalogue of the fossils Eocene molluscs of San Giovanni Ilarione (Verona - northern Italy). For the illustration of the species, the reproductions of the tables of De Gregorio (1880) accompagny the text, and up to the present they remain the best reference iconography, for the study of this rich fa...

The authors classify, provide data and paleocological significance, of the speciemens of the phyla Lophophoria (Brachiopoda) and Mollusca (Bivalvia, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda) from Pesciara di Bolca. Matherials kept in the Collections of the Verona Civic Museum of Natural History.

The occurrence of Tharsiella tinostomoides Fekih & Gougerot, 1974 in many localities of eastern and central Mediterranean Sea, is recorded.

The Authors have directly collected abundant shell detritus in severl localities of Isola d'Elba (Tirrenian Sea). The microscopical analysis of this detritus has permitted then to recognize numerous species of molluscs. Twentythree species of gastropods are new - or not well known - for the Tuscan Tirrenian sea.