Valverde de Calatrava, Ciudad Real: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. mosbachensis
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
    = Equus mosbachensis
Aguirre and Morales 1990
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus antiquus Desmarest 1822
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
    = Hippopotamus cf. major Cuvier 1824
Aguirre and Morales 1990
Hippopotamus sp. cf. major
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus dicranios
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
    = Eucladoceros cf. dicranios
Kahlke 1975
    = Eucladoceros dicranios
Aguirre and Morales 1990
Mammalia - Bovidae
Leptobos etruscus
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
    = Leptobos cf. etruscus
Aguirre and Morales 1990
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas (Archidiskodon) meridionalis Nesti 1825
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
    = Archidiskodon meridionalis Nesti 1825
Kahlke 1975
    = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825
Aguirre and Morales 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Ciudad Real
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 3.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° North, 4.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Latest Early Pleistocene, Taman faunal complex c. 0.9-0.8Ma.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: First published by Hernandez-Pacheco, 1921 with a contribution by Schloesser.
Metadata
Database number:49197
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-11 04:06:14 Last modified:2005-06-21 08:00:47
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-11 04:06:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13792.PACED M. Crusafont Pairo. 1960. Le Quaternaire Espagnol et sa faune de mammiferes - essai de synthese. Anthropos, supplement 1 (Mammalia Pleistocaenica) 1960(1):55-64 [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]
13140PACED H. D. Kahlke. 1975. The Macrofaunas of continental Europe during the Middle Pleistocene: stratigraphic sequence and problems of intercorrelation. in K.W. Butzer and G.L. Isaac, eds., After the Australopithecines. Mouton, The Hague. 309-374 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]