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20457 Saint Arnaud, Algeria noreply@dead.cthulhu.fi Mon 10/08/2020 21:12 Subject: 20457 Saint Arnaud, Algeria

Name: Jan van der Made

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Saint Arnaud is not the same locality as Ain Boucherit. Saint Arnaud is the French colonial name of El Eulma. It is probably older than Ain Boucherit, but it is not clear how much (Arambourg, 1956, 1970). I suppose that Cimitière de Saint-Arnaud and Sablière de Saint-Arnaud refe to the same site. Possibly the site is also called Sétif, because of the species name sitifense. Saint Arnaud is the type locality of Hipparion sitifensis, as written by Pomel (1897), but all later authors wrote H. sitifense (this must have to do with the gender of the genus name). Pomel described, apart from H. sitifense, one other species from St. Arnaud, Antilope (Grimmia) leporina. The remains (Pomel, 1894, pl. 13, figs. 7-15) are one mandible fragment with two molars, one with roots of the premolars, an astragalus, calcaneum, piece of a long bone and the second and third phalanx and they are not very indicative for the age of the site. The name of the antelope is a nomen nudum. Pomel described a tooth from Ain Boucherit, with the crown in sediment and with the roots broken of as Mammut borsoni. Probably this is Anancus, which is known from that site. So onlty two species in Saint Arnaud.

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