Where: France (43.9° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 4.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Early Middle Pleistocene, interglacial (climatic temperate episode). Probably Zone 20 in Guerin's scheme.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Site discovered in 1869. Macrofauna and plant macro and microfossils have also been found here. The lignite levels contain amphibians, fish, molluscs and more plant remains including tree trunks, fruits and leaf imprints, as well as 6 extra mammal species.

Primary reference: J.-P. Brugal. 1994. Le bison (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) de Pleistocene moyen ancien de Durfort (Gard, France). Bulletin Musee Nationale de Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4th Series, Section C 16(2-4):349-381 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42673: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 04.08.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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