Los Batanes cave (C-4) (Pleistocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.7° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 0.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• One of these bones was 14-C dated, providing an age of 12,770 ± 60 BP. This suggests that the deposit was formed in the uppermost part of the Pleistocene, just before the transition to the Holocene, a moment of important climatic changes

• 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 199943: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.02.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
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Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvidae indet. Vigors 1825 perching bird
Corvus monedula Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian jackdaw
Pyrrhocorax sp. Tunstall 1771 chough
Pyrrhocorax graculus Linnaeus 1766 yellow-billed chough
Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus euryale Blasius 1853 horseshoe bat
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum Schreber 1774 greater horseshoe bat
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Vespertilionidae indet. Gray 1821 vesper bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Capra pyrenaica Schinz 1838 goat