“…Similarly, Megaloceros giganteus is reported in Italy from MIS 9, in the Torre in Pietra Faunal Unit (FU), becoming quite frequent in the Late Pleistocene and disappearing at the end of the Last Glacial 40,41 . Equus hydruntinus , which was firstly recorded in the Vitinia FU, MIS 8.5–7, became more common during the Late Pleistocene, and became extinct during the middle Holocene 35,42 . Also Cervus elaphus , which occurs for the first time in the Slivia FU, MIS 19, and is still living in Italy, does not offer biochronological information, because such evidence requires identification at the subspecies level only, and can be made mostly by comparison of the antlers 31,33 , which are not reported among the fossil remains of Campoverde.…”