Also known as Blassac
Where: Auvergne, France (45.2° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 3.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Early Pleistocene, based on fauna, but the overlying basalt has been dated at 2Ma.
Environment/lithology: lacustrine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Excavated in 1965-67, 1971-73. All specimens held in the Laboratoire de Paleontologie des Vertebres et Paleontologie Humaine, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Poitiers.
Primary reference: O. Boeuf, D. Geraads, and C. Guth. 1992. Cervides Villafranchiens de Blassac-la-Girondie (Haute-Loire, France). Annales de Paleontologie 78(3):159-187 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42241: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Canis etruscus Forsyth Major 1877 canine | |
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Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758 cat
Megantereon megantereon Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat | |
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Stephanorhinus etruscus2 Falconer 1868 rhinoceros 1 3rd metatarsal, 1 4th metatarsal, 1 astragalus, 1 calcaneum, 2 incomplete tibiae.
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Cervus ischnoceros n. sp. deer | |
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