La grotte d'Aldene, Cesseras, Herault: Middle Pleistocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis (Lynx) spelaea Goldfuss 1810
    = Lynx spelaea
O'Regan 2003
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904
Plionarctos sp. Frick 1926
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus mosbachensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus acoronatus
Mammalia - Bovidae
Hemitragus sp. Hodgson 1841
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Languedoc-Roussillon
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 2.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 2.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pleistocene (has Ursus deningeri), at the end of the Mindel Complex.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Four beds J, K, L, M have yielded mammal fossils and archaeology.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: Material is held in the Musee d'Anthropologie Prehistorique de Monaco.
Metadata
Also known as:Aldene
Database number:47832
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-03-03 06:42:11 Last modified:2005-03-03 08:42:11
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-03 06:42:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12802.PACED E. Bonifay. 1991. Les Premieres industries du Sud-Est de la France et du Massif-Central. In E. Bonifay, B. Vandermeersch (eds.), Les Premiers Europeens. Edition du comite des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques (CTHS) 63-80 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

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