Llobregat River area, 80 to 90 metre terrace, Barcelona (Pleistocene of Spain)
Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.3° N, 2.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 1.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Latest Lower Pleistocene/Early Middle Pleistocene. Earliest Elsterian = Mindel glaciation.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
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 49212: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 11.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Only macrofaunas are listed in Kahlke, 1975.
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Mammalia | |
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse | |
"Dicerorhinus etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus
"Dicerorhinus etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros | |
Hippopotamus antiquus Desmarest 1822 hippo | |
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth |