Where: Granada, Spain (37.7° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 2.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Belonging to Guadix-Baza basin. dated to 1.2+-0.2Ma. Lower Pleistocene. According to Augustì et al. (2010) 1.6-1.4Ma.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; concretionary, white, carbonaceous mudstone
• The palaeosol containing the Venta Micena assemblage 'surrounded a more or less stable and shallow lake with swampy margin zones that existed in the valley of Orce during the Plio-Pleistocene'. The Mudstone (see lithology) is interpreted as a 'lake with various periods of partial dessication, during one of which the Venta Micena assemblage was formed'.
• 'white carbonate facies (mudstone) with palaeosols, carbonate concretions and abundant skeletal remains of fossil mammals'. Forms a layer 2.5km long. Venta Micena stratum is 80-120cm thick. 'Previous studies indicate that the Venta Micena assemblage is included in 90-98% pure micritic limestone, which precipitated in freshwater ponds emplaced on a caliche paleosol of diagenetic origin'
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: bone collector
Primary reference: S. Moya-Sola, S. Agusti, J. Gilbert and J. Pons-Moyá. 1981. El yacimiento cuarternario de Venta Micena (España) y su importancia dentro de las asociaciones faunisticas del Pleistoceno inferior europeo. Paleontologia i Evolució 16:39-53 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34898: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 14.10.2003, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Loredana Macaluso
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Taxonomic list
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| Amphibia |
| Salientia - Discoglossidae |
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| Salientia - Ranidae |
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| Aves |
| Charadriiformes - Laridae |
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| Reptilia |
| Ophidia - |
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| Squamata - Colubridae |
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| Squamata - Lacertidae |
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| Testudines - Testudinidae |
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| Mammalia |
| Proboscidea - Elephantidae |
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| Carnivora - Ursidae |
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| Carnivora - Mustelidae |
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| Carnivora - Canidae |
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| Carnivora - Hyaenidae |
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| Carnivora - Felidae |
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| Perissodactyla - Equidae |
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| Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae |
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| Placentalia - |
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| Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae |
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| Artiodactyla - Cervidae |
" Megaloceros (Megaceroides) solilhacus" = Megaceroides2 deer
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| Artiodactyla - Bovidae |
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| Theriamorpha - Talpidae |
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| Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae |
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| Lagomorpha - Leporidae |
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| Rodentia - Hystricidae |
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| Rodentia - Cricetidae |
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| Rodentia - Muridae |
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| Rodentia - Gliridae |
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