Conimbriga: Quaternary, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847
1 specimen
recombined as Palaeoloxodon antiquus
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Coimbra
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 8.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 8.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:125 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Quaternary
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Conimbriga Local bed:3-4
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: beds 3-4 of section (Choffat, 1894-5). Probably Mindel-Sicilian II interstadial.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: calcareous tuff
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "upper stratigraphic unit of tuffs and travertines". Bed 4 is "calcareous tuffs in thick layers"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34508
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-04 07:07:42 Last modified:2010-11-08 12:41:54
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-04 07:07:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9108.5% 5100M. T. Antunes and J. L. Cardoso. 1992. Quaternary elephants in Portugal: new data. Ciências de Terra 11:17-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]