Where: Algeria (36.0° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 4.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• "The rich and diverse fauna of large mammals from the Mansourah travertines clearly indicates an Early Pleistocene age and is associated with lithic industry of Oldowan technology."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; travertine and yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: newly described material is from two university collections and one museum collection in Algeria
Primary reference: Y. Chaid-Saoudi, D. Geraads, and J.-P. Raynal. 2006. The fauna and associated artefacts from the Lower Pleistocene site of Mansourah (Constantine, Algeria). Comptes Rendus Palevol 5(8):963-971 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 69723: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.03.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant | |
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Equus cf. tabeti Arambourg 1970 horse
sensu lato Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
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Ceratotherium mauritanicum Pomel 1888 white rhino | |
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Hippopotamus cf. sirensis Pomel 1896 hippo | |
Gazella cf. pomeli, Tragelaphus cf. gaudryi, cf. Bos bubaloides, Kobus aff. kob, Oryx cf. gazella, Alcelaphini indet.
Gazella cf. pomeli Arambourg 1979 gazelle
Tragelaphus cf. gaudryi Thomas 1884 antelope
cf. Bos bubaloides Arambourg 1979 ox
Kobus aff. kob Erxleben 1777 kob
Oryx cf. gazella Linnaeus 1758 gemsbok
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876 antelope | |
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Kolpochoerus cf. maroccanus Ennouchi 1953 pig | |
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cf. Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
| Reptilia | |
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Emys prosigriz n. sp.2 Pallary 1901 pond turtle MNHN.F 1874-47, a partial steinkern of a carapace and plastron
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