Reinforcing the idea of an early dispersal of Hippopotamus amphibius in Europe: Restoration and multidisciplinary study of the skull from the Middle Pleistocene of Cava Montanari (Rome, central Italy)

• Beniamino Mecozzi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: beniamino.mecozzi@uniroma1.it

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra (PaleoFactory lab.), Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7097-3217

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• Alessio Iannucci,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Section of Terrestrial Palaeoclimatology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Marco Mancini,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Di Geologia Ambientale E Geoingegneria, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Area della Ricerca di Roma 1, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy

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• Daniel Tentori,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Istituto Di Geologia Ambientale E Geoingegneria, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Area della Ricerca di Roma 1, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy

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• Chiara Cavasinni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

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• Jacopo Conti,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Polo Museale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

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• Mattia Yuri Messina,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra (PaleoFactory lab.), Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

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• Alex Sarra,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cooperativa Fabrica Conservazione e Restauro, Roma, Italia

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• Raffaele Sardella

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra (PaleoFactory lab.), Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

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