Also known as Islas Medas, Îles Médas, Meda Grande

Where: Catalonia, Spain (42.0° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 3.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Prev. upper Pliocene, but: "According to these latest studies and considering that the lower limit of the Quaternary (and consequently that of the lower Pleistocene) was recently pushed back to -2.58 Ma [Gibbard et al., 2010], the Medas Islands deposit is currently to be included in the lower Pleistocene, with an age of about -1.85 Ma." - translated from French in Bailon and Auge (2012)

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J.-Y. Crochet. 1986. Insectivores pliocènes du sud de la France (Languedoc-Roussillon) et du nord-est de l'Espagne. Palaeovertebrata 16(3):145-171 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68413: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 20.01.2007, edited by Torsten Liebrecht and Terri Cleary

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