Where: Poitou-Charentes, France (45.7° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 0.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: 4 Member, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• 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.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic, bone collector, coprolite
Collection methods: bulk,
• This material is still under study.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 43619: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 16.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Myotis bechsteini, Myotis cf. emarginatus, Myotis myotis, Myotis cf. nattereri, Miniopterus schreibersii, Vespertilio murinus
Myotis bechsteini Leisler 1818 vesper bat
Myotis cf. emarginatus Geoffroy 1806 vesper bat
Myotis myotis Borkhausen 1797 greater mouse-eared bat
Myotis cf. nattereri Kuhl 1818 vesper bat
Miniopterus schreibersii bend-winged bat
Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus 1758 vesper bat | |
cf. Rhinolophus ferrumequinum Schreber 1774 greater horseshoe bat | |
Equus hydruntinus horse | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Cervus cf. simplicidens Lydekker 1876 deer | |
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"Panthera (Leo) spelaea" = Panthera leo spelaea, Lynx sp.
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792 lynx | |
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Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear | |
Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758 European polecat | |
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf | |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole | |
Crocidura leucodon Hermann 1780 white-toothed shrew | |
Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog | |
Lepus cf. europaeus Pallas 1778 European hare
Oryctolagus cuniculus Linnaeus 1758 European rabbit | |
Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus 1766 garden doormouse | |
Lagurus lagurus, "Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Microtus gregalis, Microtus arvalis, Arvicola terrestris
Lagurus lagurus mouse
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Microtus gregalis vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole |