Also known as Artenac-en-Charente
Where: Poitou-Charentes, France (45.7° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 0.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: 5 Member, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• There are five members at this site ranging in age from the Middle to Upper Pleistocene. Members 1-3 (beds I-V) are Middle Pleistocene levels, the Upper Pleistocene is represented by Members 4-5 (beds 5-10). Bed 6 is ?Stage 5, temperate to cold. The micromammal collection for bed 6 is divided into 3 parts (6a, b, c) but the sediments and macromammals are not.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Collection methods: bulk,
• This material is still under study.
Primary reference: A. Delagnes, J.-F. Tournepiche, D. Armand, E. Desclaux, M.-F. Diot, C. Ferrier, V. Le Fillatre and B. Vandermeersch. 1999. Le gisement Pleistocene moyen et superieur d'Artenac (Saint-Mary, Charent): premier bilan interdisciplinaire. Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise 96(4):469-496 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 43631: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 17.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Cricetus cricetus, ? Chionomys nivalis, Microtus gregalis, Microtus arvalis, Microtus oeconomus, Arvicola terrestris, "Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster
Microtus gregalis vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Microtus oeconomus Pallas 1776 tundra vole
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole | |
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse | |
"Citellus cf. superciliosus" = Spermophilus
"Citellus cf. superciliosus" = Spermophilus ground squirrel | |
Lepus cf. europaeus Pallas 1778 European hare
Oryctolagus cuniculus Linnaeus 1758 European rabbit | |
Bovinae indet. Gray 1821 antelope | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer | |
Equus hydruntinus horse | |
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Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox | |
Meles sp. Brisson 1762 badger | |
Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog | |
Crocidura leucodon Hermann 1780 white-toothed shrew
Sorex minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
Neomys cf. fodiens Pennant 1771 Eurasian water shrew | |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole | |
Myotis myotis Borkhausen 1797 greater mouse-eared bat
Myotis bechsteini Leisler 1818 vesper bat
Myotis cf. emarginatus Geoffroy 1806 vesper bat
Myotis cf. nattereri Kuhl 1818 vesper bat |