Láchar-Fuensanta, Loma Taberneros Quarry: Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus cf. major Cuvier 1824
Aguirre and Morales 1990
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas meridionalis Nesti 1825
    = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825
Aguirre and Morales 1990
Mammuthus meridionalis af. tamanensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Albacete
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 2.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.3° North, 2.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: In the Loma Taberneros Quarry. In terrace 60/70, of the Jucar River. Taman Faunal complex (c0.9-0.8Ma).
Lithology and environment
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: In a river terrace.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: There are two sites called Lachar - one in Granada, on in Albacete. This is the one in Albacete.
Taxonomic list comments:Aguirre & Morales (1990) say that Hippopotamus is associated with the Mammuthus remains, it has been entered.
Metadata
Also known as:Lachar-Fuensanta, Loma Taberneros Quarry
Database number:40987
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-05 06:42:19 Last modified:2004-07-05 09:42:53
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-05 06:42:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11050.PACED E. de Aguirre. 1963. Elephas meridionalis Nesti, en Fuensanta y Lachar; edad del hundimiento de la vega (Granada). Notas y Communs. Inst. Geol. y Minero de Espana 69:233-237 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

10948PACED E. Aguirre and J. Morales. 1990. Villafranchian faunal record of Spain. Quartärpaläontologie 8:7-11 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/T. Liebrecht]