A NEW PALEONTOLOGICAL SITE FROM THE END OF THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE IN THE LOT: THE AVEN OFASSIER
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...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | French |
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HAL CCSD
2016
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Online Access: | https://hal.science/hal-01435543 https://hal.science/hal-01435543/document https://hal.science/hal-01435543/file/Uzunidis,%202016,%20Assier.pdf https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.7530 |
Summary: | 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 association which has a natural origin (pit-fall) is dated of the end of the Middle Pleistocene. The site constitutes a new marker in the fossil record of the Quercy region for this time period. Un site karstique en aven, dans le Lot, livre un matériel fossile diversifié et en bon état de conservation. L’étude morphométrique permet de déterminer : Equus mosbachensis, Bison priscus ssp., Canis lupus lunellensis, Vulpes vulpes, Oryctolagus cunniculus grenalensis. Cette association, qui a une origine naturelle (piégeage), est caractéristique de la fin du Pléistocène moyen. Il représente un nouveau gisement d’aven-piège dans la documentation de la région Quercy pour cette période. |
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