Saint-Vidal (Pleistocene of France)

Also known as Saint Vidal, St. Vidal

Where: France (45.1° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 3.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 17 (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Betweeen Pardines and St Vallier in date (= Late Pliocene, Villanyian, MN 17).

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 47132: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.02.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
2 tusks (Puy Museum) and 2 molars figured in Bout 1960.
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Croizetoceros ramosus Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
Croizetoceros ramosus medius
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros
1 right mandible in Musee du Puy.
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse
Equus stenonis vireti. 1 metatrasla in Bout's collection (discussed in Prat, 1968).