Wissant, Pas de Calais (Pleistocene of France)
Where: Pas de Calais, France (50.9° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 1.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Lower Mindel or Gunz-Mindel Interglacial, based on the presence of Hippopotamus.
Environment/lithology: marine
• Specimens found during dredging for marine sands, between +2m and -5m.
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Dredged.
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 49086: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 08.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
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Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824 hippo | |
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Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
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Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth | |