Grotte de l'Observatoire, Foyer a: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Monaco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros mercki Kaup 1841
    = Stephanorhinus hemitoechus Falconer 1868
Lacombat 2005
see common names

Geography
Country:Monaco
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 7.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 7.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Crypte" section of stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Musée d'Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco
Metadata
Database number:191727
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-02-10 16:23:29 Last modified:2018-02-10 16:23:29
Access level:the public Released:2018-02-10 16:23:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
64663. M. Boule and L. De Villeneuve. 1927. La grotte de l'Observatoire à Monaco. Archives de l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine Mémoire 1:1-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

64662 F. Lacombat. 2005. Les rhinocéros fossiles des sites préhistoriques de l’Europe méditerranéenne et du Massif Central: paléontologie et implications biochronologiques. BAR International Series 1419:1-175 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]