Grotte de l'Eglise, Cenac-et-Saint-Julien, Dordogne, Aquitaine (Pleistocene of France)

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
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Hemitragus jemlahicus Smith 1826 antelope
Hemitragus jemlahicus bonali (?)
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904 bear
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
An axis of a large canid, unstratified.
Canis etruscus Forsyth Major 1877 canine