Vallonnet Cave bed 4, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes Maritimes (Pleistocene of France)
Where: Alpes Maritimes, France (43.8° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 7.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: 4 Member, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Late Early Pleistocene, dated by ESR to 900,000BP.
Environment/lithology: cave
• 5 stratigraphic units at the site, making a total depth of 1.5m of sediment. Stalagmite causes closure of the cave after depostion of level 3.
• stalagmite floor.
Size class: microfossils
Collection methods: Long warm, forested phase.
Primary reference: H. de Lumley. 1988. La stratigraphie du remplissage de la Grotte du Vallonnet. L'Anthropologie (Paris) 92(2):407-428 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 50524: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 17.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Tilia sp. Linnaeus 1753 linden | |
Fagus sp. Linnaeus 1753 beech | |
Ulmus sp. Linnaeus 1753 elm | |
Fraxinus sp. Linnaeus 1753 ash | |
Pinopsida | |
Picea sp. Dietrich 1824 spruce |