Where: Provence, France (43.7° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 5.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Early Middle Pleistocene (roughly 0.8-0.7Ma), but originally (in this paper), described as Late Pliocene).

Environment/lithology:

Collection methods: Site found in 1960 by engineers from the French Electricity company. Excavated in 1960, 1961 and 1962. Beds B-G have fossils within them, but all are lumped together in this initial list.

Primary reference: M. F. Bonifay and E. Bonifay. 1963. Un gisement a faune epi-villafranchienne a Saint-Esteve-Janson (Bouches-du-Rhone). Comptes Rendue Academie des Sciences, Paris 246:1136-1138 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48890: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 04.04.2005

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