Also known as Artenac-en-Charente
Where: Poitou-Charentes, France (45.7° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 0.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: 5 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 5-10). Bed 6 is ?Stage 5, temperate to cold. The micromammal collection for bed 6 is divided into 3 parts (6a, b, c) but the sediments and macromammals are not.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
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 43631: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 17.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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 | |
Equus hydruntinus horse | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer | |
Bovinae indet. Gray 1821 antelope | |
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
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Meles sp. Brisson 1762 badger | |
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox | |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole | |
Sorex minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
Neomys cf. fodiens Pennant 1771 Eurasian water shrew
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 | |
"Citellus cf. superciliosus" = Spermophilus
"Citellus cf. superciliosus" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Microtus gregalis, Microtus oeconomus, Microtus arvalis, ? Chionomys nivalis, Arvicola terrestris, Cricetus cricetus
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Microtus gregalis vole
Microtus oeconomus Pallas 1776 tundra vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster | |
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse | |
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