La Fragua Cave: Holocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Grapsidae
Pachygrapsus marmoratus
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae
Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus 1758)
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Portunus puber
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Thecostraca - Pollicipomorpha - Pollicipedidae
Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin 1790)
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Echinidae
Paracentrotus sp. Mortensen 1903
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Monachus monachus (Hermann 1779)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Cantabria
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 3.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.5° North, 3.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: mid-Holocene; Mesolithic
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate,anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:101904
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-01-05 07:27:53 Last modified:2020-11-19 14:02:32
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-05 07:27:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34649. A. B. Marin, M. R. Gonzalez-Morales, and J. Estevez. 2010. Paleoclimatic inference of the mid-Holocene record of monk seal (Monachus monachus) in the Cantabrian Coast. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

74394 E. Álvarez-Fernández. 2011. Humans and marine resource interaction reappraised: Archaeofauna remains during the late Pleistocene and Holocene in Cantabrian Spain. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:327-343 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]