Where: Granada, Spain (37.4° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 3.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Guadix Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• The magnetostratigraphic studies performed in the Guadix Basin, with this site as the main point of interest, have verified that Fonelas P-1 is located in a reversed polarity horizon (subchronozone C2r.1r), between the normal subchrons Reunion and Olduvai, 4 m directly below the base of this last subchron. Therefore, its age is 2.0 million years (Arribas et al., 2009; Pla et al., 2011).

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: bone collector

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• material is in the Museo Geominero (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España)"

Primary reference: A. Arribas and G. Garrido. 2007. Meles iberica n. sp., a new Eurasian badger (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Fonelas P-1 (Plio-Pleistocene boundary, Guadix Basin, Granada, Spain). Comptes Rendus Palevol 6(8):545-555 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77773: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.01.2008, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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