Mestas de Con, Cangas de Onis, Asturias: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
recombined as Stephanorhinus etruscus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. suessenbornensis Wüst 1901
recombined as Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus cf. elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus 1758)
Orthogonoceros sp. Kahlke 1956
    = Praemegaceros sp. Portis 1920
Kahlke 1975
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison priscus (Bojanus 1827)
    = Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Kahlke 1975
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium crenatidens Fabrini 1890
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus cf. etruscus Cuvier 1823
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Oryctolagus sp. Lilljeborg 1874
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Asturias County:Cangas de Onis
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 5.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 5.1° 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 - Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Latest Lower Pleistocene/Early Middle Pleistocene. Early Elsterian = Mindel glaciation.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Homotherium crenatidens originally described as Machairodus by Fraga 1955.
Metadata
Database number:49211
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-04-11 08:04:00 Last modified:2005-06-21 08:11:58
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-11 08:04:00
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:

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]