Saint-Prest: Pleistocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium cuvieri Owen 1846
1 specimen
Trogontherium cuvieri boisvilletti
Conodontes boisvillettii n. sp. Laugel 1862
Gervais 1869 1 specimen
synonym of Trogontherium cuvieri
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
21 specimens
Dicerorhinus etruscus brachycephalus
    = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868
O'Regan 2003
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
6 specimens
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824
6 specimens
Mammalia - Cervidae
Alces carnutorum
9 specimens
plus 2 phalanges which may be Alces
Praemegaceros verticornis
1 specimen
Cervus cf. elephas
3 specimens
Cervidae sp. 1, Cervus cf. elephas
aff. Dama sp. Frisch 1775
3 specimens
Cervidae sp. 2, aff. Dama sp.
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison cf. schoetensacki
26 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Gervais 1850)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
174 specimens
Mammuthus meridionalis depereti
see common names

Geography
Country:France County:Chartres
Coordinates: 48.5° North, 1.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.5° North, 1.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MNQ20, roughly 1.0Ma. In a karstic depression in the upper part of a slope in the Eure Valley. Four different levels: 'The depression is first filled by periglacial alluvial sands and gravels of the River Eure (very high terrace), then covered by a clayey sand where the interglacial fauna has been found. Above there are two formations: periglacial sands and cailloutis deriving from the plateau deposits and a sandy loess. This complex, older than 800Kyr, restricted to the depression, is covered by saalian and weichselian loesses.'
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: clayey sand
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Site found in 1848 by M. de Boisvillette. Material held in the Musee des Sciences naturelles et de Prehistoire de Chartres, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle a Paris (in part in the old collection of the l'Ecole des Mines), and a small part in the Centre des Sciences de la Terre de l'Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon-1.
Taxonomic list comments:Open forest landscape under a temperate wet climate, near a river (Eure).
Metadata
Also known as:Saint Prest
Database number:34459
Authorizer:A. Turner, M. Carrano Enterer:H. O'Regan, M. Carrano
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-02 06:00:30 Last modified:2003-09-02 09:09:17
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-02 06:00:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9073.PACED C. Guerin, Y. Dewolf, and J.P. Lautridou. 2003. Revision d'un site paleontologique celebre: Saint-Prest (Chartres, France). Géobios 36:55-82 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

36092 P. Gervais. 1869. Zoologie et Paléontologie Générales. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vertébrés Vivants et Fossiles, Première Série [General Zoology and Paleontology. New Research on Living and Fossil Vertebrate Animals. First Series] 1-263 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]
9580PACED H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]