Where: Alpes Maritimes, France (43.8° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 7.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: 2 Member, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Middle Early Pleistocene, between 1.37 and the Jaramillo event.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: This level was formed in a drier and much warmer climate than today. Probably formed during one of the warmest transgressive seas in the second half of the Lower Pleistocene.
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 50523: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 17.05.2005, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Nodosariata | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
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? Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910 | |
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Reophax sp. Montfort 1808 | |
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Angiospermae | |
Aesculus hippocastanum soapberry | |
Ceratonia siliqua legume | |
Pterocarya sp. Kunth 1824 wingnut
Juglans sp. Linnaeus 1753 walnut | |
Vitis vinifera grapevine | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Myrtus communis myrtle | |
Angiospermae | |
Olea sp. Linnaeus 1753 olive | |
Laurus nobilis laurel | |
Anthozoa | |
Corallium rubrum gorgonian | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bolma rugosa" = Bolma rugosus
"Bolma rugosa" = Bolma rugosus Linnaeus 1767 snail | |
Haliotis sp. Linnaeus 1758 abalone | |
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Vermetus sp., "Bivonia cristata" = Vermetus (Bivonia)
Vermetus sp. Daudin 1800 worm shell | |
Patella ferruginea limpet
Patella caerulea Linnaeus 1758 limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
"Chlamys varia" = Chlamys (Chlamys) varia, "Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata, Manupecten pesfelis, Spondylus aff. gaederopus
"Chlamys varia" = Chlamys (Chlamys) varia Linnaeus 1758 scallop
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
Manupecten pesfelis scallop
Spondylus aff. gaederopus Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
"Gryphaea virleti" = Hyotissa virleti
"Gryphaea virleti" = Hyotissa virleti Deshayes 1832 oyster | |
Ostreidae indet., "Gryphaea cucullata" = Saccostrea cuccullata
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
"Gryphaea cucullata" = Saccostrea cuccullata Born 1778 oyster | |
Lithophaga aff. lithophaga Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Gymnolaemata | |
"Retepora aff. cellulosa" = Reteporella
"Retepora aff. cellulosa" = Reteporella | |
Malacostraca | |
Eriphia spinifrons Herbst 1785 crab | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus perforatus barnacle
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris cidaris pencil urchin | |
Sphaerechinus granularis sea urchin | |
Paracentrotus lividus sea urchin | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myliobatis aquila Linnaeus 1758 eagle ray | |
"Odontaspis taurus" = Carcharias taurus
"Odontaspis taurus" = Carcharias taurus Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
Actinopteri | |
Pristipoma sp. Agassiz 1835 | |
Labrus sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Chilomycterus sp. Brisout de Barneville 1846 | |
Sparus auratus perch-like fish | |