Mestas de Con, Cangas de Onis, Asturias (Pleistocene to of Spain)

Where: Asturias, Spain (43.3° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 5.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• Latest Lower Pleistocene/Early Middle Pleistocene. Early Elsterian = Mindel glaciation.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Crusafont Pairo. 1960. Le Quaternaire Espagnol et sa faune de mammiferes - essai de synthese. Anthropos, supplement 1 (Mammalia Pleistocaenica) 1960(1):55-64 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49211: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 11.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Homotherium crenatidens originally described as Machairodus by Fraga 1955.
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Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Oryctolagus sp.
Oryctolagus sp. Lilljeborg 1874 rabbit
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus cf. suessenbornensis" = Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis
"Equus cf. suessenbornensis" = Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis Wüst 1901 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
"Dicerorhinus etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus
"Dicerorhinus etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp.
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Praemegaceros sp., Cervus cf. elaphus, Capreolus capreolus
Praemegaceros sp. Portis 1920 deer
Cervus cf. elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus cf. etruscus
Ursus cf. etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear
 Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium crenatidens
Homotherium crenatidens Fabrini 1890 cat