Grotte de l'Observatoire, Foyer b: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Monaco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cuon alpinus
(Pallas 1811)
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ssp. europaea | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Capra ibex
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros mercki
Kaup 1841
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= Stephanorhinus hemitoechus
Falconer 1868
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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: | 191728 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2018-02-10 16:23:53 | Last modified: | 2018-02-10 16:23:53 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-02-10 16:23:53 |
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] |