Artenac 'Bed 10', Commune de Saint-Mary, Charente,: Late/Upper Pleistocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
cf. Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber 1774)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Miniopterus schreibersii
Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus 1758
Myotis myotis (Borkhausen 1797)
Myotis cf. nattereri Kuhl 1818
Myotis bechsteini Leisler 1818
Myotis cf. emarginatus Geoffroy 1806
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
Crocuta crocuta spelaea
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera (Leo) spelaea (Goldfuss 1810)
recombined as Panthera leo spelaea
Panthera (leo) spelaea
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus hydruntinus
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
Equus caballus cf. germanicus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus cf. simplicidens Lydekker 1876
Mammalia - Bovidae
aff. Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827
Bovinae essentially Bos primigenius
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Soricidae
Crocidura leucodon (Hermann 1780)
Sorex aff. araneus Linnaeus 1758
Sorex group araneus/coronatus
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus cf. europaeus Pallas 1778
Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Clethrionomys glareolus
synonym of Myodes
Microtus gregalis
Microtus arvalis (Pallas 1779)
Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus 1758)
Lagurus lagurus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus 1766
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Poitou-Charentes
Coordinates: 45.7° North, 0.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.6° North, 0.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:4
Local bed:10
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphy comments: There are five members at this site ranging in age from the Middle to Upper Pleistocene. Members 1-3 (beds I-V) are Middle Pleistocene levels. The Upper Pleistocene is represented by Members 4-5 (beds 10-5). The macromammal fauna is subdivided into groups 1-3 (macromammal group 3 is only found in bed 10). Suggested date for bed 10 is OIS 5d, temperate phase.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: clays and silts with stones and coproliths.
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:anthropogenic,bone collector,coprolite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: This material is still under study.
Metadata
Database number:43619
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-16 07:52:20 Last modified:2004-08-16 10:52:20
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-16 07:52:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11457.PACED A. Delagnes, J.-F. Tournepiche, D. Armand, E. Desclaux, M.-F. Diot, C. Ferrier, V. Le Fillatre and B. Vandermeersch. 1999. Le gisement Pleistocene moyen et superieur d'Artenac (Saint-Mary, Charent): premier bilan interdisciplinaire. Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise 96(4):469-496 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]