Saint-Prest: Pleistocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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174 specimens | |||||||||
Mammuthus meridionalis depereti | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus stenonis
Cocchi 1867
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6 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Allohippus stenonis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus etruscus
(Falconer 1868)
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21 specimens | |||||||||
Dicerorhinus etruscus brachycephalus | ||||||||||
= Stephanorhinus etruscus
Falconer 1868
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O'Regan 2003 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus major
Cuvier 1824
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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aff. Dama sp.
Frisch 1775
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Cervidae sp. 2, aff. Dama sp. | ||||||||||
Cervus cf. elephas
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Cervidae sp. 1, Cervus cf. elephas | ||||||||||
Praemegaceros verticornis
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Alces carnutorum
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9 specimens | |||||||||
plus 2 phalanges which may be Alces | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison cf. schoetensacki
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26 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Pachycrocuta brevirostris
(Gervais 1850)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Trogontherium cuvieri
Owen 1846
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Trogontherium cuvieri boisvilletti | ||||||||||
Conodontes boisvillettii n. sp.
Laugel 1862
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Gervais 1869 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Trogontherium cuvieri | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | County: | Chartres |
Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 1.5° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 48.5° North, 1.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MNQ20, roughly 1.0Ma. In a karstic depression in the upper part of a slope in the Eure Valley. Four different levels: 'The depression is first filled by periglacial alluvial sands and gravels of the River Eure (very high terrace), then covered by a clayey sand where the interglacial fauna has been found. Above there are two formations: periglacial sands and cailloutis deriving from the plateau deposits and a sandy loess. This complex, older than 800Kyr, restricted to the depression, is covered by saalian and weichselian loesses.' |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: clayey sand |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Collection method comments: Site found in 1848 by M. de Boisvillette. Material held in the Musee des Sciences naturelles et de Prehistoire de Chartres, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle a Paris (in part in the old collection of the l'Ecole des Mines), and a small part in the Centre des Sciences de la Terre de l'Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon-1. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Open forest landscape under a temperate wet climate, near a river (Eure). |
Metadata
Also known as: | Saint Prest | ||
Database number: | 34459 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner, M. Carrano | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2003-09-02 06:00:30 | Last modified: | 2003-09-02 09:09:17 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-02 06:00:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9073. | PACED | C. Guerin, Y. Dewolf, and J.P. Lautridou. 2003. Revision d'un site paleontologique celebre: Saint-Prest (Chartres, France). Géobios 36:55-82 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
36092 | P. Gervais. 1869. Zoologie et Paléontologie Générales. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vertébrés Vivants et Fossiles, Première Série [General Zoology and Paleontology. New Research on Living and Fossil Vertebrate Animals. First Series] 1-263 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] | |
9580 | PACED | H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen] |