Also known as Rocca Neyra
Where: France (45.6° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 3.0° E)
When: MN 17 (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• Late Pliocene, Villanyian, Villafranchian
•"Early dates for the assemblage of Roca-Neyra have been estimated at 1.99 Ma (Poidevin et al., 1984); however, recent analyses show a much older date, at 2.6 Ma (Nomade et al., 2014). This older date is consistent with the biochronological interpretation by Palombo and Valli (2004) for Montopoli FU, the earliest Quaternary, at the boundary between Pliocene and Pleistocene." (Bartolini-Lucenti & Spassov 2022)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Heintz, C. Guerin, R. Martin and F. Prat. 1974. Principaux gisements villafranchiens de France: Listes fauniques et biostratigraphie. Memoires du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres 78(1):169-182 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 47129: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.02.2005, edited by Bethany Allen
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Taxonomic list
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"Felis issiodorensis" = Lynx issiodorensis3
"Felis issiodorensis" = Lynx issiodorensis3 Croizet and Jobert 1828 lynx Humerus (Rn 152) in Bale Museum.
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"Euryboas lunensis" = Chasmaporthetes lunensis3 Del Campana 1914 hyaena Described and illustrated by Schaub (1941).
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Leptobos elatus3 antelope A fragment of cranium with a left horncore, in the Faculty of Sciences, Clermont-Ferrand has provisionally been attributed to L. elatus.
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Anancus arvernensis3 Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere around 20 specimens of Anancus. The suggestion of Stehlin of a second mastodont and an 'elephant meridional' by Michel-Levy and Munier-Chalmas are regarded as unsubstantiated.
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