Wissant, Pas de Calais: Pleistocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Pas de Calais
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 1.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 1.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Mindel or Gunz-Mindel Interglacial, based on the presence of Hippopotamus.
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: Specimens found during dredging for marine sands, between +2m and -5m.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Dredged.
Metadata
Database number:49086
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-08 03:39:48 Last modified:2005-04-08 06:39:49
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-08 03:39:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]