Where: Monaco (43.7° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 7.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• Between stalagmitic levels I and II
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Musée d'Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco
Primary reference: M. Boule and L. De Villeneuve. 1927. La grotte de l'Observatoire à Monaco. Archives de l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine Mémoire 1:1-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191726: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Arctomys marmotta" = Marmota marmota
"Arctomys marmotta" = Marmota marmota Linnaeus 1758 Alpine marmot | |
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear | |
Vulpes lagopus Linnaeus 1758 Arctic fox |