Where: Haute-Garonne, France (43.2° N, 0.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 0.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Middle Pleistocene, doubtfully assigned to the Mindel-Riss (roughly 0.6-0.45Ma), but needs more work to ascertain this.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Found and excavated in 1902.
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 49089: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 08.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Capreolus sp. Gray 1821 roe
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer | |
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox | |
"Rhinoceros mercki" = Dihoplus kirchbergensis
"Rhinoceros mercki" = Dihoplus kirchbergensis Jäger 1839 rhinoceros | |
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Homotherium latidens Owen 1846 scimitar toothed cat | |
Pliocrocuta perrieri Kretzoi 1938 hyaena | |
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf | |
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear
Plionarctos sp. Frick 1926 bear A small upper M2 of a bear described in 1922, identified by Bonifay 1973 as Plionarctos.
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Castor sp. Linnaeus 1758 beaver |