Vallonnet Cave bed 3 'faunal level', Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes Maritimes, Frankreich


Fundort: Vallonnet Cave bed 3 'faunal level', Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes Maritimes, Frankreich, Alpes Maritimes, Frankreich
Taxon: Macaca sylvanus aus der Familie Cercopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, Dated by ESR between 980,000 to 910,000 years ago (Jaramillo event). Late Early Pleistocene. Mammalian fauna is found in level 3, known as the 'Faunal horizon of Vallonnet'. There are three levels within member 3 - B1, B2 and C, but the large mammal faunal list is not subdivided., Sandy clayey-muds, rich in stoneas and pebbles. Red in colour and 30 to 100cm thick.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,781 und 2,588 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Frankreich
Geologie, Sratigraphie Gelasian, Calabrian / Early Pleistocene /
Koordinaten: 43° 45 ' 56 '' N, 7° 27 ' 32 '' O

Literatur

H. de Lumley, H-D. Kahlke, A-M. Moigne, P-E. Moulle. 1988, Les Faunes de grands mammiferes de la Grotte du Vallonnet, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes. L'Anthropologie. 92:2, p. 465 - 496

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