PBDB Collection

Mansourah: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Algeria

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae

	Emys sigriz Michahelles 1829	Thomas 1878
	MNHN.F 1874-47, a partial steinkern of a carapace and plastron
	= Emys prosigriz n. sp. Pallary 1901	Pallary 1901
	nomen dubium belonging to Mauremys
	MNHN.F 1874-47 (holotype), a partial steinkern of a carapace and plastron

	Clemmys precaspica n. sp. de Stefano 1902	de Stefano 1902
	nomen dubium belonging to Mauremys
	MNHN, number unknown, shell
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

	Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

	cf. Panthera pardus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Suidae

	Kolpochoerus cf. maroccanus Ennouchi 1953
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae

	Hippopotamus cf. sirensis Pomel 1896
Mammalia - Bovidae

	Gazella cf. pomeli Arambourg 1979

	Kobus aff. kob (Erxleben 1777)

	Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876

	Oryx cf. gazella (Linnaeus 1758)

	cf. Bos bubaloides Arambourg 1979

	Tragelaphus cf. gaudryi Thomas 1884
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Ceratotherium mauritanicum Pomel 1888
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Equus cf. tabeti Arambourg 1970

	Hipparion sp. sensu lato de Christol 1832
see common names

Geography

Country:	Algeria
Coordinates:	36.0° North, 4.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	36.0° North, 4.4° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Quaternary	Epoch:	Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:	2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "The rich and diverse fauna of large mammals from the Mansourah travertines clearly indicates an Early Pleistocene age and is associated with lithic industry of Oldowan technology."

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	travertine
Secondary lithology:	yellow sandstone
Lithology description: most or all fossils are from the bottom of three layers, which includes "travertines and yellow sands, rich in fauna, with fresh polyhedrons in quartzite or flint"
Environment:	fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: "It belongs to a series of fluvio-lacustrine formations"

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:	many

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:	archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: newly described material is from two university collections and one museum collection in Algeria
Taxonomic list comments:revises earlier reports of Bayle (1854), Gervais (1869), Thomas (1884), and Joleaud (1918), but includes previously undescribed material

Metadata

Database number:	69723
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, E. Vlachos	Enterer:	J. Alroy, E. Vlachos
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2007-03-03 21:58:50	Last modified:	2008-12-16 20:29:07
Access level:	the public	Released:	2007-03-03 21:58:50
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

23392.

Y. Chaid-Saoudi, D. Geraads, and J.-P. Raynal. 2006. The fauna and associated artefacts from the Lower Pleistocene site of Mansourah (Constantine, Algeria). Comptes Rendus Palevol 5(8):963-971 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

72630		G. de Stefano. 1902. Cheloniani fossili cenozoici. Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana 21:263-304 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
72629		P. Pallary. 1901. Sur les mollusques fossiles terrestres, fluviatiles et saumatres de l'Algerie. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France 22:1-213 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
72628		P. Thomas. 1878. Note sur une tortue fossile des terrains supérieurs du Mansourah (Province de Constantine). Revue des Sciences naturelles de Montpellier 7:22-27 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]