La grotte de l'Escale Upper bed B, Saint-Esteve-Janson, Bouches du Rhone.: Middle Pleistocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus deningeri
Reichenau 1904
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Bonifay 1973 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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cf. Cuon stehlini
Thenius 1954
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Bonifay 1973 | |||||||||
| synonym of Xenocyon lycaonoides | ||||||||||
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Canis etruscus
Forsyth Major 1877
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Bonifay 1973 | |||||||||
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Vulpes vulpes
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Bonifay 1973 | |||||||||
| Vulpes vulpes jansoni | ||||||||||
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Vulpes praeglacialis
(Kormos 1932)
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Bonifay 1973 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Alopex praeglacialis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Lynx spelaea
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Bonifay 1973 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Hemitragus jemlahicus
Smith 1826
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Bonifay 1973 | |||||||||
| Hemitragus jemlahicus bonali | ||||||||||
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= Hemitragus bonali
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Bonifay 1991 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Bonifay 1973 | |||||||||
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= Dicerorhinus cf. mercki
Kaup 1841
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Bonifay 1991 | |||||||||
| 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
| Local bed: | Upper B | ||||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pleistocene (Biharian), roughly 0.8-0.7Ma.
There are a number of beds within the cave - from A (lowermost)-L (topmost), not all of which contain fauna. Each faunal level has been entered separately. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: Fauna comes from the upper part of bed B. Bed is described as a whole - it contains deteriorated (altere) browny-reddish fallen rocks, with reddish clayey silts. The whole bed is 1-2 metres thick. | |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
| Collection method comments: Specimens held in the Maison Mediterraneenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence.
Birds are mentioned but not listed. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Fauna of upper bed B is indicative of a cold-temperate environment. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | L'Escale | ||
| Database number: | 48911 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Subset of collection #: | 48890 | ||
| Created: | 2005-04-04 08:33:06 | Last modified: | 2005-04-04 11:36:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-04 08:33:06 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |
| 13054 | PACED | M. F. Bonifay. 1973. Principaux gisements paleontologiques Francais du Pleistocene Moyen: Essai de classification. Le Quaternaire 41-50 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |