El Castillo (Pleistocene of Spain)

Where: Santander, Spain (43.3° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 4.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. R. Stewart. 2002. Sea-birds from coastal and non-coastal, archaeological and “natural” Pleistocene deposits or not all unexpected deposition is of human origin. Acta zoologica cracoviensia 45:167-178 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 125320: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.03.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Branta leucopsis Bechstein 1803 barnacle goose
Melanitta nigra Linnaeus 1758 common scoter
Mergus serrator Linnaeus 1758 red-breasted merganser
Tadorna tadorna Linnaeus 1758 Common shelduck
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan 1763 Arctic tern
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Alle alle Linnaeus 1758 dovekie
 Charadriiformes - Charadriidae
Pluvialis squatarola Linnaeus 1758 black-bellied plover
 Charadriiformes - Stercorariidae
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
"Physeter catodon" = Physeter macrocephalus
"Physeter catodon" = Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus 1758 sperm whale