Also known as Grotte XIII Grotte 13
Where: Aquitaine, France (44.8° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 1.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Middle Pleistocene, Middle Mindel (roughly 0.65-0.58Ma). There are 17 beds within the site, but this one of the first faunal lists and they are not subdivided.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: A rescue dig conducted by F. Prat in 1966. Probably the same site as that reported by Harle and Stehlin in 1913. Most of the 17 beds contain fossils.
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 49093: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 08.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer | |
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Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904 bear | |
Canis etruscus Forsyth Major 1877 canine |