La grotte de l'Escale first faunal list, Saint-Esteve-Janson, Bouches du Rhone.: Middle Pleistocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
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Amphibia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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carapace fragments of tortoise | ||||||||||
Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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very abundant but not studied yet. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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abundant but not studied yet. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Dolichopithecus arvernensis
Depéret 1929
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5 teeth making up 1 right mandible. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Acinonyx pardinensis
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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abundant. | ||||||||||
Lynx pardina
(Temminck 1827)
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recombined as Lynx pardinus | ||||||||||
Lynx pardina var. spelaea. Crania, mandibles and postcrania. | ||||||||||
Machairodus sp.
Kaup 1833
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta brunea
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Vulpes sp.
Frisch 1775
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Canis etruscus
Forsyth Major 1877
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Canis etruscus var. arnensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus cf. deningeri
Reichenau 1904
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Capra sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bos sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros cf. mercki
Kaup 1841
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synonym of Dihoplus kirchbergensis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France | State/province: | Provence |
Coordinates: | 43.7° North, 5.4° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.7° North, 5.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Early Middle Pleistocene (roughly 0.8-0.7Ma), but originally (in this paper), described as Late Pliocene). |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Site found in 1960 by engineers from the French Electricity company. Excavated in 1960, 1961 and 1962. Beds B-G have fossils within them, but all are lumped together in this initial list. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Virtually all faunal assignments in this paper are wrong. See individual beds (A-H) entered as subsets of this one for the full (taxonomically up-to-date) faunal list. |
Metadata
Database number: | 48890 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
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Created: | 2005-04-04 05:48:39 | Last modified: | 2005-04-04 09:00:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-04 05:48:39 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13053. | PACED | M. F. Bonifay and E. Bonifay. 1963. Un gisement a faune epi-villafranchienne a Saint-Esteve-Janson (Bouches-du-Rhone). Comptes Rendue Academie des Sciences, Paris 246:1136-1138 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |