Rosieres, Cher: Middle Pleistocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sp. Linnaeus 1758
Rhinoceros mercki or etruscus.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. stenonis Cocchi 1867
    = Equus cf. suessenbornensis Wüst 1901
Bonifay 1973
recombined as Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cervidae
Megaceros dupuisi
synonym of Megaloceros
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792
large size.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Cuon stehlini Thenius 1954
synonym of Xenocyon lycaonoides
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 47.2° North, 2.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.2° North, 2.9° 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: Early Middle Pleistocene, Late Cromerian to Early Mindel (roughly 0.85-0.7Ma).
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Studied by Stehlin in 1912. Relative lack of temperate fauna suggests it is a cold phase fauna (hence assigned to the Mindel).
Metadata
Database number:49092
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-08 06:59:55 Last modified:2005-04-08 09:59:55
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-08 06:59:54
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]