La Puebla de Valverde, excavations 1974: MN 17, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Papio arvernensis
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
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Macaca sp.
Lacépède 1799
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Vulpes alopecoides
Forsyth Major 1877
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Crusafont Pairo 1965 | |||||||||
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Canis cf. falconeri
Forsyth-Major 1877
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
| recombined as Xenocyon falconeri | ||||||||||
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Nyctereutes vulpinus
(Soria and Aguirre 1976)
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Monguillon et al. 2004 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus etruscus
Cuvier 1823
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Crusafont Pairo 1965 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Megantereon megantereon
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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Crusafont Pairo 1965 | |||||||||
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Homotherium crenatidens
Fabrini 1890
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Crusafont Pairo 1965 | |||||||||
| not mentioned by Aguirre and Morales (1990), but listed by Turner (n.d.). | ||||||||||
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Acinonyx pardinensis
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
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Felis (Lynx) issiodorensis
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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Crusafont Pairo 1965 | |||||||||
| recombined as Lynx issiodorensis | ||||||||||
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Panthera cf. schaubi
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Hyaena perrieri
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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Crusafont Pairo 1965 | |||||||||
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Chasmaporthetes lunensis
Del Campana 1914
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus stenonis
Cocchi 1867
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
| recombined as Allohippus stenonis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus etruscus
(Falconer 1868)
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
| recombined as Stephanorhinus etruscus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus philisi
Mennecart et al. 2017
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
| recombined as Metacervocerus philisi | ||||||||||
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Croizetoceros ramosus
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| subspecies pueblensis. More than 320 specimens of the same taxon were recovered during the excavation of 1963 and 1964. | ||||||||||
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Eucladoceros senezensis
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
| Eucladoceros senezensis vireti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazellospira torticornis
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
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cf. Gallogoral meneghinii
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
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Gazella borbonica
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Aguirre and Morales 1990 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Postpalerinaceus cf. vireti
Crusafont and Villalta 1947
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Crochet 1986 | |||||||||
| Mentioned from earlier excavation (Crochet & Heintz, 1971) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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Crusafont Pairo 1965 | |||||||||
| recombined as Mammuthus meridionalis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Teruel |
| Coordinates: | 40.2° North, 0.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.3° North, 1.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 1093 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | MN 17 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Pleistocene, Villafranchian, MN17 |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:incomplete. A cercopithecid has been described is Aguirre and Soto (1974) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 36112 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Fara, L. van den Hoek Ostende, A. Turner | Enterer: | E. Fara, L. van den Hoek Ostende, H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-01-14 06:50:30 | Last modified: | 2007-03-02 23:14:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-14 06:50:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9690. | 5% 29100 | E. Heintz and E. Aguirre. 1976. Le bois de Croizetoceros ramosus pueblensis, Cervide de la faune villafranchienne de la Puebla de Valverde, Teruel (Espagne). Estudios Geologicos, Madrid 32(6):569-572 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 10948 | PACED | E. Aguirre and J. Morales. 1990. Villafranchian faunal record of Spain. Quartärpaläontologie 8:7-11 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/T. Liebrecht] |
| 19698 | J.-Y. Crochet. 1986. Insectivores pliocènes du sud de la France (Languedoc-Roussillon) et du nord-est de l'Espagne. Palaeovertebrata 16(3):145-171 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende] | |
| 13795 | PACED | M. Crusafont Pairo. 1965. Zur Obergrenze des Villafranchiums in Spanien. Berichte der Geologischen Gesellschaft in der DDR (Berlin) 10(1):19-48 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
| 85496 | A. Monguillon, N. Spassov, A. Argant, K. Kauhala, and S. Viranta. 2004. Nyctereutes vulpinus comb. et stat. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae) from the late Pliocene of Saint-Vallier (Drôme, France). Geobios 37:S183-S188 [B. Allen/B. Allen] | |
| 9580 | PACED | H. J. O'Regan. 2003. Reidentifications and synonomies of European mammals. [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen] |