Camino de las Yeseras (Holocene of Spain)

Where: Madrid, Spain (40.4° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 3.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• 3rd millenium BC

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical, ,

• All the material studied is deposited in the Department of Prehistory and Archeology of the Autonomous University of Madrid

Primary reference: A. Perez-Garcia, X. Murelaga, C. Liesau, A. Morales, L. Llorente Rodriguez and A. Daza Perez. 2011. Estudio preliminar de los quelonios del yacimiento calcolítico (Holoceno) de Camino de las Yeseras (Madrid, España). Geogaceta 50(2):189-192 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205224: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 European pond turtle
shell fragments
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys leprosa Schweigger 1812 Mediterranean pond turtle
shell fragments