The Cave of Fouvent, also called Abri Cuvier (Fouvent-le-Bas, Haute-Saône, France): Taphonomical analysis of a Late Pleistocene Hyena Den (OIS3)

• Published in: Paléo
• Main Authors: Fourvel, Jean-Baptiste, Fosse, Philippe, Fernandez, Philippe, Antoine, Pierre-Olivier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Musée national de Préhistoire 2016
• Subjects: Fouvent; repaire d’hyènes; accumulation osseuse; OIS3; taphonomie; paléoécologie; Hyena den; Bone accumulation; Taphonomy; Palaeoecology; archeo; geo; Giganteus; Canis lupus; Gulo gulo; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/paleo/3010

The palaeontological site of Fouvent (Fouvent-le-Bas, Haute-Saône, France) is a fissure-filling bone accumulation known from the beginning of the XIXth century. This assemblage is at the origin of palaeontological (description of fossil hyena by Cuvier, first record of French wolverine) and taphonom...