Cueto de la Mina: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Mergus serrator Linnaeus 1758
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Charadriidae
Pluvialis squatarola (Linnaeus 1758)
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Calidris maritima
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larus canus Linnaeus 1758
Álvarez-Fernández 2011
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)
1 fragment
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo bufo (Linnaeus 1758)
Holman 1998
original and current combination Rana bufo
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana temporaria Linnaeus 1758
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]