Also known as L'Escale

Where: Provence, France (43.7° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 5.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene (Biharian), roughly 0.8-0.7Ma.

•There are a number of beds within the cave - from A (lowermost)-L (topmost), not all of which contain fauna. Each faunal level has been entered separately.

Environment/lithology: cave

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens held in the Maison Mediterraneenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence.

•Birds are mentioned but not listed. The small mammal remains have been subdivided into collectiosn within beds G and H and these are not directly related to the macromammal remains. They have been entered here at Bed level (i.e. a composite list), see Bonifay 1973 for the breakdown within beds.

Primary reference: M. F. Bonifay and E. Bonifay. 1963. Un gisement a faune epi-villafranchienne a Saint-Esteve-Janson (Bouches-du-Rhone). Comptes Rendue Academie des Sciences, Paris 246:1136-1138 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 48889: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 04.04.2005

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