Le Mas d'Azil (Pleistocene of France)

Where: France (42.9° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Preservation: original phosphate, anthropogenic

Primary reference: F. Poplin. 1983. La dent de cachalot sculptee du Mas d'Azil. Memoires de la Societe prehistorique francaise 16:81-94 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 86273: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.01.2009, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 European pond turtle
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus 1758 sperm whale