PBDB Collection

Villeneuve-sur-Lot (Lot-et-Garonne) (Pleistocene of France)

Where: France (44.4° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Thought to be similar date to Cajarc and Cregols, therefore probably Lower Pleistocene.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Specimens held in the Museum de Lyon.

Primary reference: E. Harle and H.G. Stehlin. 1909. Une nouvelle faune de Mammiferes des Phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin - Societe Geologique de France 9(4):39-52 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49307: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 13.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Sus scrofa is in entered in the original faunal list as Sus scropha.

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Mammalia
Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae	Stephanorhinus sp. Stephanorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Equus sp. Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Cervidae indet., Capreolus capreolus Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer large. Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer ordinary size.
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Bovidae indet. Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope large.
Artiodactyla - Suidae	Sus scrofa Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar upper M2 and M3, moderate size and simple structure.
Carnivora - Felidae	Homotherium latidens Homotherium latidens Owen 1846 scimitar toothed cat fragment of upper canine, indicative of a large crown, and a lower canine fragment.