La grotte d'Aldene, Cesseras, Herault: Middle Pleistocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Hyaena sp.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis (Lynx) spelaea
Goldfuss 1810
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= Lynx spelaea
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus deningeri
Reichenau 1904
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Plionarctos sp.
Frick 1926
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus mosbachensis
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus acoronatus
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Hemitragus sp.
Hodgson 1841
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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.
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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:
9580 | PACED | H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen] |