Blassac-la-Girondie, Auvergne, France (Pleistocene of France)

Also known as Blassac

Where: Auvergne, France (45.2° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 3.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Early Pleistocene, based on fauna, but the overlying basalt has been dated at 2Ma.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine

• a lacustrine delta.
• alluvium.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Excavated in 1965-67, 1971-73. All specimens held in the Laboratoire de Paleontologie des Vertebres et Paleontologie Humaine, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Poitiers.

Primary reference: O. Boeuf, D. Geraads, and C. Guth. 1992. Cervides Villafranchiens de Blassac-la-Girondie (Haute-Loire, France). Annales de Paleontologie 78(3):159-187 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42241: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
1 incomplete leg.
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
aff. Pliocrocuta perrieri2 Kretzoi 1938 hyaena
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758 cat
Megantereon megantereon Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus etruscus1 Cuvier 1823 bear
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis etruscus Forsyth Major 1877 canine
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus bressanus1, "Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis1
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis1 Cocchi 1867 horse
Equus stenonis senezensis
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus etruscus3 Falconer 1868 rhinoceros
1 3rd metatarsal, 1 4th metatarsal, 1 astragalus, 1 calcaneum, 2 incomplete tibiae.
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus ischnoceros n. sp. deer
Alces cf. carnutorum moose
1 right metatarsal.
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae