Pardines (Pleistocene of France)
Where: Auvergne, France (45.6° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 3.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 17 (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• Late Pliocene, Villanyian, Villafranchian
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Heintz, C. Guerin, R. Martin and F. Prat. 1974. Principaux gisements villafranchiens de France: Listes fauniques et biostratigraphie. Memoires du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres 78(1):169-182 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 47131: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Many equid teeth and bones in Bale Museum have stenonine characteristics.
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Leptobos etruscus antelope Several specimens including a distal tibia fragment (LP 30) and distal metatarsal fragment (LP 46) in Bale Museum. L. etruscus or possibly Leptobos stenometopon.
Gazella borbonica gazelle
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"Cervus philisi" = Metacervocerus philisi Mennecart et al. 2017 deer a left juvenile metacarpal lacking the distal epiphysis (LP 60).
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Stephanorhinus etruscus2 Falconer 1868 rhinoceros 1 poorly preserved deciduous lower dp3 (LP 203, Bale Museum).
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"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis, Equus bressanus
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse Equus stenonis vireti. (Provisonal attribution). 1 stenonid upper right M1 (LP 486, Bale Musuem).
Equus bressanus horse = Equus stenonis var. major Boule. 2 mandible fragments with incisors and lateral molars from the same individual (LP 7), 1 scapula fragment (LP 62), 1 3rd metacarpal (LP 128), 1 astragalus (LP 4).
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? Pliocrocuta perrieri2 Kretzoi 1938 hyaena 1 metatarsal and 2 vertebrae (LP 198, Bale Museum). Kurten 1963 had grave doubts that these are H. perrieri.
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Homotherium crenatidens Fabrini 1890 cat Bones in Bale Museum including a tibia (LP 154) and a radius (LP 131).
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Nyctereutes megamastoides Pomel 1842 raccoon dog a cranium (LP 217) and a maxilla (LP 224) in Bale Museum.
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Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere A fragment of palate with right D2 and left D2 and D3 (LP 176, Bale Museum). Z. borsoni and A. meridionalis have not been identified.
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