Cueto de la Mina: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Anseriformes
- Anatidae
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Mergus serrator
Linnaeus 1758
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Álvarez-Fernández 2011 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Charadriidae
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Pluvialis squatarola
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Álvarez-Fernández 2011 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Scolopacidae
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Calidris maritima
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Álvarez-Fernández 2011 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Laridae
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Larus canus
Linnaeus 1758
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Álvarez-Fernández 2011 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus primigenius
(Blumenbach 1799)
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1 fragment | ||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo bufo
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Holman 1998 | ||||||
original and current combination Rana bufo | |||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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Rana temporaria
Linnaeus 1758
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Holman 1998 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Spain |
Coordinates: | 42.1° North, 4.5° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 42.1° North, 4.5° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 19700 ± 500 YBP (unknown) |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Solutrean |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | poorly lithified silty,conglomeratic sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 150207 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | M. Uhen, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-09-04 02:33:26 | Last modified: | 2020-11-19 13:36:39 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-09-04 02:33:26 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
48063. | J. Stuart, L. D. Sulerzhitsky, L. A. Orlova, Y. V. Kuzmin, and A. M. Lister. 2002. The latest woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach) in Europe and Asia: a review of the current evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews 21:1559-1569 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
74394 | E. Álvarez-Fernández. 2011. Humans and marine resource interaction reappraised: Archaeofauna remains during the late Pleistocene and Holocene in Cantabrian Spain. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:327-343 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
66368 | J. A. Holman. 1998. Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics 1-265 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |