Where: Algeria (36.0° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 4.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• "The rich and diverse fauna of large mammals from the Mansourah travertines clearly indicates an Early Pleistocene age and is associated with lithic industry of Oldowan technology."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; travertine and yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: newly described material is from two university collections and one museum collection in Algeria
Primary reference: Y. Chaid-Saoudi, D. Geraads, and J.-P. Raynal. 2006. The fauna and associated artefacts from the Lower Pleistocene site of Mansourah (Constantine, Algeria). Comptes Rendus Palevol 5(8):963-971 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 69723: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.03.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Emys prosigriz n. sp.2 Pallary 1901 pond turtle MNHN.F 1874-47, a partial steinkern of a carapace and plastron
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Mammalia | |
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant | |
cf. Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
sensu lato Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
Equus cf. tabeti Arambourg 1970 horse | |
Ceratotherium mauritanicum Pomel 1888 white rhino | |
Hippopotamus cf. sirensis Pomel 1896 hippo | |
Tragelaphus cf. gaudryi, cf. Bos bubaloides, Oryx cf. gazella, Gazella cf. pomeli, Alcelaphini indet., Kobus aff. kob
Tragelaphus cf. gaudryi Thomas 1884 antelope
cf. Bos bubaloides Arambourg 1979 ox
Oryx cf. gazella Linnaeus 1758 gemsbok
Gazella cf. pomeli Arambourg 1979 gazelle
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876 antelope
Kobus aff. kob Erxleben 1777 kob | |
Kolpochoerus cf. maroccanus Ennouchi 1953 pig |