Chilhac 2b: MN 17, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
1 specimen
    = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868
O'Regan 2003
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Auvergne Region County:Haute-Loire Departement
Coordinates: 45.1° North, 3.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.2° North, 3.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:498 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Gelasian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary - Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene
*International age/stage:Piacenzian - Piacenzian *Local age/stage:MN 17 - MN 17
Key time interval:MN 17 Zone: MN 17 level
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 1.80600 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: subcollection of Chilhac 2
Taxonomic list comments:certainly incomplete. Note that the occurrence of Dicerorhinus etruscus in this collection is not redondant with the one reported for the collection Chilhac 2 (no. 32105)
Metadata
Database number:32106
Authorizer:E. Fara, A. Turner Enterer:E. Fara, H. O'Regan
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:32105
Created:2003-06-05 04:19:11 Last modified:2007-02-21 12:26:47
Access level:database members Released:2003-06-05 04:19:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8634.5% 7080O. Boeuf. 1995. Le Dicerorhinus etruscus (Rhinocerotidae, Mammalia) du site pliocene superieur de Chilhac (Haute-Loire, France). GĂ©obios 28(3):383-391 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

9580PACED H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]