Grotte de l'Observatoire, Foyer C: Late Pleistocene, Monaco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:Monaco
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 7.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 7.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 99.2 m above sea level
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Musée d'Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco
Metadata
Database number:191721
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-02-10 16:17:01 Last modified:2018-02-10 18:56:04
Access level:the public Released:2018-02-10 16:17:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

64663. M. Boule and L. De Villeneuve. 1927. La grotte de l'Observatoire à Monaco. Archives de l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine Mémoire 1:1-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]