Ambrona level AS1/2 (Pleistocene of Spain)

Where: Soria, Spain (41.2° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• from the "Lower Member Complex"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

• "very detritic"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1993 to 2000

Primary reference: E. Soto, C. Sesé, A. Pérez-Gonzalez and M. Santonja. 2001. Mammal fauna with Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus from the lower levels of Ambrona (Soria, Spain). The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome 2001 607-610 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73758: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• a general list of micromammals is given for the entire Lower Member Complex, but not broken down
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus
"Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847 elephant
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 ox
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
cf. Dama sp. Frisch 1775 fallow deer
Dama cf. dama Linnaeus 1758 fallow deer
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer