Villarroya Basin: Middle Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvenensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys cappettai
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix primigenia (Wagner 1848)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Enhydrictis ardea Bravard 1828
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pliocrocuta perrieri Kretzoi 1938
Chasmaporthetes lunensis Del Campana 1914
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Megantereon cultridens (Cuvier 1824)
Homotherium latidens (Owen 1846)
Viretailurus schaubi
Lynx issiodorensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Acinonyx pardinensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Nyctereutes megamastoides (Pomel 1842)
original and current combination Canis megamastoides
Vulpes alopecoides Forsyth Major 1877
Mammalia - Bovidae
Megalovis sp. Schaub 1924
Gazella borbonica
Leptobos elatus
Hesperidoceras merlae
Pliotragus ardeus (Deperet 1883)
Gazellospira torticornis
Mammalia - Cervidae
Arvernoceros ardei (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Cervus perrieri Croizet and Jobert 1828
recombined as Praeelaphus perrieri
Croizetoceros ramosus (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
rocinantis crusafonti
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:La Rioja
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 2.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.4° North, 2.1° West
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red,yellow lithified sandy,conglomeratic sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The first unit unconformably overlies the Cretaceous limestones. This unit, about 30 m thick, and mostly formed by lacustrine facies (white-yellowish marls and laminated limestones, and gray lutites) is organized as a deepening sequence. The lacustrine facies laterally inter- nger with a belt of reddish conglomerates, sandstones, and lutites related to alluvial fans feeding into the basin from the northern and western margins. The entire unit shows a ning-up evolution. The upper unit, about 70 m thick, con- sists in alluvial facies (brown-reddish conglomerates, sand- stones, and lutites), laterally related to yellow sandstones and lutites with coal and nodules of gypsum.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:189976
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:J. So
Modifier:J. So
Created:2017-11-25 01:53:04 Last modified:2017-11-25 02:12:32
Access level:the public Released:2017-11-25 01:53:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
63872. E. L. Pueyo, A. Munoz, C. Laplana and J. M. Pares. 2015. The Last Appearance Datum of Hipparion in Western Europe: magnetostratigraphy along the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in the Villarroya Basin (Northern Spain). International Journal of Earth Sciences 105:2203-2220 [M. Uhen/J. So/M. Uhen]