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 | |
Oryctolagus cuniculus Linnaeus 1758 European rabbit
Lepus cf. europaeus Pallas 1778 European hare | |
Microtus gregalis, Microtus arvalis, Arvicola terrestris, "Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Lagurus lagurus
Microtus gregalis vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Lagurus lagurus mouse | |
Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus 1766 garden doormouse | |
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf | |
Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758 European polecat | |
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear | |
Lynx sp., "Panthera (Leo) spelaea" = Panthera leo spelaea
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792 lynx | |
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Equus hydruntinus horse | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Cervus cf. simplicidens Lydekker 1876 deer | |
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Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog | |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole | |
Crocidura leucodon Hermann 1780 white-toothed shrew | |
cf. Rhinolophus ferrumequinum Schreber 1774 greater horseshoe bat | |
Vespertilio murinus, Miniopterus schreibersii, Myotis bechsteini, Myotis cf. nattereri, Myotis cf. emarginatus, Myotis myotis
Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus 1758 vesper bat
Miniopterus schreibersii bend-winged bat
Myotis bechsteini Leisler 1818 vesper bat
Myotis cf. nattereri Kuhl 1818 vesper bat
Myotis cf. emarginatus Geoffroy 1806 vesper bat
Myotis myotis Borkhausen 1797 greater mouse-eared bat |