Where: Pas de Calais, France (50.0° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 1.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• An interglacial at the start of the Mindel (Mindel 1 or 2). Middle Pleistocene, roughly 0.8-0.6Ma.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Type site for the Acheulian (Abbevillian)

Primary reference: M. F. Bonifay. 1973. Principaux gisements paleontologiques Francais du Pleistocene Moyen: Essai de classification. Le Quaternaire 41-50 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49087: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 08.04.2005

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