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Capri
Cervus tyrrhenicus
Azzaroli, 1962

Favignana
Cervus elaphus L., 1758
"''i
Levanzo
Cervus elaphus L., 1758

The late Pleistocene fossillevels of the island of Lampedusa
yielded only endemie mammals of Ethiopian erigi n,

induding some osteological fragments which show affinities

with the species Syncerus calfer (Sparrmann, 1779) ,..

and possibly with one representative of the Hippotraginae
family ,j

Fig. 7- Late Pleisrocene fossi] remains of deer of the south-central Mediterranean basin, with the endemie ungulates of
the island ofLampedusa. The grey area represents lands lost during Holocene sea-level rises. Data from Graziosi (1950),
Malatesta (1957),Azzaroli (1962, 1971, 1977), Cassali and Tagliacozzo (1982), Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska (1991),
Burgio et al. (1997) (drawing by Sandra Sacchetti)

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