Peyrolles, Puy-de-Dome (Pliocene to of France)

Where: Auvergne, France (46.0° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Plio-Pleistocene boundary.

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47805: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 02.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros
1 upper P4, 1 upper M3 in the Bravard collection, Natural History Museum, London.
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Leptobos sp. Rutimeyer 1878 antelope
1 lower left D4 (34,442) and 1 mandible without teeth, in the Bravard collection, London. Cannot be determined to species.