Artenac 'Deuxieme macromammal Assemblage', Commune de Saint-Mary, Charente,: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephantidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Gulo sp. Storr 1780
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
Canis lupus cf. lunellensis
Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera leo (Linnaeus 1758)
Panthera leo spelaea
Dinobastis latidens (Owen 1846)
recombined as Homotherium latidens
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus 1758)
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovinae indet. (Gray 1821)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
Equus caballus mosbachensis
Mammalia - Lagomorpha
Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Poitou-Charentes
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 0.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.0° North, 0.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Local bed:IV-V
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: There are five members at this site ranging in age from the Middle to Upper Pleistocene. Members 1-3 (beds I-V) are Middle Pleistocene levels (estimated at 0.7-0.5Ma = 'Mindel-Riss' or 'Riss'), The Upper Pleistocene is represented by Members 4-5 (beds 5-10). The macromammal fauna is subdivided into groups 1-3 and these are entered here.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: clays and red breccia.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: This material is still under study.
Metadata
Database number:43618
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-16 07:10:58 Last modified:2004-08-16 10:10:58
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-16 07:10:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11457.PACED A. Delagnes, J.-F. Tournepiche, D. Armand, E. Desclaux, M.-F. Diot, C. Ferrier, V. Le Fillatre and B. Vandermeersch. 1999. Le gisement Pleistocene moyen et superieur d'Artenac (Saint-Mary, Charent): premier bilan interdisciplinaire. Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise 96(4):469-496 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]