Where: Spain (42.8° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 0.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• There is no absolute dating of this deposit, but the conservation of the remains, along with the nature of the association (the presence of U. arctos) point to a Late Pleistocene age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: sieve
Primary reference: C. Núñez-Lahuerta, J. Galán, V. Sauqué, R. Rabal-Garcés, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 2018. Avian remains from new Upper Pleistocene and Holocene sites in the Spanish Pyrenees. Quaternary International 481:123-134 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 199941: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.02.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird | |
Phoenicurus ochruros Gmelin 1774 black redstart
Oenanthe oenanthe Linnaeus 1758 northern wheatear | |
Corvidae indet. Vigors 1825 perching bird | |
Mammalia | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Vespertilionidae indet. Gray 1821 vesper bat
Myotis blythii vesper bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
Myotis myotis Borkhausen 1797 greater mouse-eared bat
Plecotus sp. Geoffroy 1818 vesper bat | |
Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear |