ammonites
La grotte de l'Escale bed D, Saint-Esteve-Janson, Bouches du Rhone. (Pleistocene of France)

Also known as L'Escale

Where: Provence, France (43.7° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 5.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene (Biharian), roughly 0.8-0.7Ma.

•There are a number of beds within the cave - from A (lowermost)-L (topmost), not all of which contain fauna. Each faunal level has been entered separately.

Environment/lithology: cave

• Fauna comes from bed D. Beds C-F are all described together. They contain deteriorated (altere) fallen rocks at the base, with more and more 'cryoclastiques' towards the top and loessic silts. Total thickness between 2-4 metres.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens held in the Maison Mediterraneenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence.

•Birds are mentioned but not listed.

Primary reference: M. F. Bonifay and E. Bonifay. 1963. Un gisement a faune epi-villafranchienne a Saint-Esteve-Janson (Bouches-du-Rhone). Comptes Rendue Academie des Sciences, Paris 246:1136-1138 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 48908: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 04.04.2005