Also known as Almenara 3
Where: Castellon, Spain (39.9° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 0.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Late Lower Biharian, beginning of the Middle Pleistocene, approximately 0.8Ma.
Environment/lithology: fissure fill
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Agusti and A. Galobart. 1986. La sucesion de micromamiferos en el complejo carstico de Casablanca (Almenara, Castellon): problematica biogeografica. Paleontologia i Evolucio 20:57-62 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34932: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 20.10.2003, edited by Jason Head
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pelodytes (cf. Pelodytes) punctatus Daudin 1802 parsley frog "1 distal fragment of left ilium, 4 humeri, 1 trunk vertebra, 4 radio-ulnae and 1 tibio-filbula (pg. 273)"
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Pelobates cultripes Tschudi 1838 spadefoot toad "1 fragment of squamosal, 2 fragments of frontoparietal, 1 left ilium, and 1 distal fragment of tibiofibula. (pg. 29)"
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Pelophylax (cf. Pelophylax) perezi Frost et al. 2006 frog "1 right frontoparietal, 2 mandibles, 1 sacral vertebra, 4 ilia, and 1 humerus (pg. 275)"
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Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 squamates "...skull bones (8 premaxillae, 16 frontals, 6 parietals, 4 jugals, 56 maxillae, 278 dentaries and 4 quadrates) and post-cranial bones (37 humeri, 59 femora, 3 tibiae, 25 vertebrae [among which 11 dorsal and 14 caudal] and 83 hemipelves). (pg. 278)"
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Chalcides (cf. Chalcides) bedri skink "3 dentaries and 29 vertebrae (10 trunk, 14 sacral and 5 caudal). (pg. 276)"
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Rhinechis scalaris Schinz 1822 ladder snake "1 right articular s.l. and 30 trunk vertebrae. (pg. 284)"
Colubrinae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake "...152 vertebrae have only been referred to a "colubrine" indeterminated (pg. 283)"
Coronella girondica Daudin 1803 southern smooth snake "1 supraoccipital, 1 left exoccipital and 87 trunk vertebrae (pg. 284)"
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Blanus cinereus Vandelli 1797 Mediterranean worm lizard "21 dentaries and 21 trunk vertebrae. (pg. 276)"
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| Mammalia | |
Pliomys episcopalis, Allocricetus bursae, Mimomys savini, Allophaiomys chalinei, Allophaiomys nutiensis
Pliomys episcopalis rodent
Mimomys savini vole | |
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"Apodemus aff. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Micromys aff. minutus harvest mouse
Castillomys crusafonti Michaux 1969 mouse | |
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