A NEW PALEONTOLOGICAL SITE FROM THE END OF THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE IN THE LOT: THE AVEN OFASSIER

• Published in: Quaternaire
• Main Authors: UZUNIDIS, A., Brugal, Jean-Philip, Maksud, F., CASTEL, J.C.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique (LAMPEA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Sink; Aven; Middle Pleistocene; mammals; morphometry; biochronology; mammifères; morphométrie; Pléistocène moyen; biochronologie; [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01435543; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01435543/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01435543/file/Uzunidis,%202016,%20Assier.pdf; https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.7530

International audience We report the discovery of a karstic site, as a sink, yielding a diversified and well preserved fossil fauna. The morphometric study allows identifying: Equus mosbachensis, Bison priscus ssp., Canis lupus lunellensis, Vulpes vulpes, Oryctolagus cunniculus grenalensis. This ass...