Valverde de Calatrava, Ciudad Real (Pleistocene of Spain)

Where: Ciudad Real, Spain (39.0° N, 3.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 4.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Latest Early Pleistocene, Taman faunal complex c. 0.9-0.8Ma.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: First published by Hernandez-Pacheco, 1921 with a contribution by Schloesser.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49197: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 11.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus cf. major
Hippopotamus cf. major Cuvier 1824 hippo
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Eucladoceros dicranios
Eucladoceros dicranios Nesti 1841 deer
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Leptobos cf. etruscus
Leptobos cf. etruscus antelope
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus mosbachensis
Equus mosbachensis horse
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis
Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
from Hernandez-Pacheco 1921.