Santa Cruz: Pleistocene, Portugal

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

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Setúbal
Coordinates: 38.1° North, 8.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 8.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:183 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "stratigraphy cannot clearly be recognized. However this specimen is possible related to Pleistocene deposits that outcrop in this region"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,brown,red sandy conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "mainly rosy, sometimes brownish or red sands and gravels, eventually showing black mineralisations by manganese oxides"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:all
Disassociated minor elements:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34513
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-04 08:14:57 Last modified:2010-11-08 12:43:53
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-04 08:14:57
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]