Where: Madrid, Spain (40.5° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 3.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Some archaeology - clactoabbevillian. Not well dated on fauna - ?Middle Pleistocene. Suggested as Cromerian (Mindel) in 1965.
Environment/lithology: fluvial
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Material held at the University of Madrid.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51817: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 21.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox | |
"? Megaceros sp." = Megaloceros, Cervus elaphus
"? Megaceros sp." = Megaloceros Brookes 1828 Irish elk
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer | |
"Dicerorhinus mercki" = Dihoplus kirchbergensis
"Dicerorhinus mercki" = Dihoplus kirchbergensis Jäger 1839 rhinoceros | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
"Elephas (Hesperoloxodon) antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus
"Elephas (Hesperoloxodon) antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847 elephant also down as platyrhinchus selon Graells.
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