Mestas de Con, Cangas de Onis, Asturias: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Oryctolagus sp.
Lilljeborg 1874
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. suessenbornensis
Wüst 1901
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recombined as Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis | |||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus etruscus
(Falconer 1868)
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recombined as Stephanorhinus etruscus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison priscus
(Bojanus 1827)
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= Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Kahlke 1975 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Orthogonoceros sp.
Kahlke 1956
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= Praemegaceros sp.
Portis 1920
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Kahlke 1975 | ||||||
Cervus cf. elaphus
Linnaeus 1758
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Capreolus capreolus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus cf. etruscus
Cuvier 1823
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Homotherium crenatidens
Fabrini 1890
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Spain | State/province: | Asturias | County: | Cangas de Onis |
Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 5.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.4° North, 5.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Latest Lower Pleistocene/Early Middle Pleistocene. Early Elsterian = Mindel glaciation. |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Homotherium crenatidens originally described as Machairodus by Fraga 1955. |
Metadata
Database number: | 49211 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2005-04-11 08:04:00 | Last modified: | 2005-06-21 08:11:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-11 08:04:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13792. | PACED | M. Crusafont Pairo. 1960. Le Quaternaire Espagnol et sa faune de mammiferes - essai de synthese. Anthropos, supplement 1 (Mammalia Pleistocaenica) 1960(1):55-64 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
13140 | PACED | H. D. Kahlke. 1975. The Macrofaunas of continental Europe during the Middle Pleistocene: stratigraphic sequence and problems of intercorrelation. in K.W. Butzer and G.L. Isaac, eds., After the Australopithecines. Mouton, The Hague. 309-374 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |