Also known as Les Etouaires, Etouaires, Perrier
Where: France (45.7° N, 2.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 45.2° N, 3.4° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 16 (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)
• Middle Pliocene, Villafranchian, Villanyian. Estimated to date between 2.6-2.25Ma.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: This paper gives an updated faunal list. Where details have been provided on earlier identifications these have been entered too.
•Type locailty for Sus arvernensis Croizet & Jobert, 1828, Gazella borbonica Deperet, 1884 and Pliotragus ardeus (Deperet, 1884).
Primary reference: E. Heintz, C. Guerin, R. Martin and F. Prat. 1974. Principaux gisements villafranchiens de France: Listes fauniques et biostratigraphie. Memoires du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres 78(1):169-182 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47100: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 08.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Zygolophodon borsoni mastodon | |
Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere | |
Talpidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole several specimens including an upper right M3 (Prr 103) and a proximal ulna fragment (Prr 98), all in Bale Museum.
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Lynx issiodorensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 lynx abundant. 3 crania in Bale (Prr 200, 201, 411) and 1 cranium in Lyon Museum (P. 143).
Acinonyx pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 cheetah type specimen, a mandible , held in the MNHN, Paris. Figured in Schaub 1949.
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Canis aff. etruscus Forsyth Major 1877 canine Material in the NHM, London and a tibia (R. 21) in Clermont.
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Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear Material in the Bravard collection MNHN, Paris, figured by Heller (1949) and Viret (1954).
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Enhydrictis ardea Bravard 1828 mustelid carnivore
Baranogale antiqua Pomel 1864 mustelid carnivore at least 2 mandibles in the MNHM, Paris, figured in Schaub 1949.
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"Dicerorhinus jeanvireti" = Stephanorhinus jeanvireti Guérin 1972 rhinoceros 5 tarsals (2327), 5 metatarsals (2331), 1 radius (2317), 1 right femur, 2 metacarpals (2339, 2333), all in the MNHN, Paris.
Stephanorhinus etruscus3 Falconer 1868 rhinoceros 2 right humeri and 1 atlas (MNHN, Paris), 1 right juvenile calcaneum (P. 86, Lyon Museum), 1 incomplete juvenile tibia and a fragment of proximal radius (D17 and D8-10, Clermont-Ferrand) and 3 femora (Prr 155, 323 and 340, Bale Museum).
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Sus arvernensis Deperet 1885 pig 6 maxilla and mandible fragments, include two type specimens from Croizet and Jobert (1829). All held in the Croizet Collection, MNHM, Paris.
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Pliotragus ardeus Deperet 1883 antelope
Gazella borbonica gazelle | |
""Cervus" perrieri" = Praeelaphus perrieri, Croizetoceros ramosus, ""Cervus" pardinensis" = Metacervocerus pardinensis, Arvernoceros ardei, ""Cervus" cusanus" = Procapreolus cusanus
""Cervus" perrieri" = Praeelaphus perrieri Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
Croizetoceros ramosus Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
""Cervus" pardinensis" = Metacervocerus pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
Arvernoceros ardei Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
""Cervus" cusanus" = Procapreolus cusanus Croizet and Jobert 1928 deer | |
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