Also known as Gran Dolina

Where: Spain (42.3° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 3.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene, post Brunhes/Matuyama boundary. OIS 9-11, approximately 0.5-0.4Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; gravel

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: E. Carbonell, M. Esteban, A. Martin Najera, M. Mosquera, X.P. Rodriguez, A. Olle, R. Sala, J.M. Verges, J.M. Bermudez Castro and A.I. Ortega. 1999. The Pleistocene site of Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain: a history of the archaeological investigations. Journal of Human Evolution 1999(37):313-324 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 34926: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 20.10.2003, edited by Loredana Macaluso

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