Devil's Tower rock shelter: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Gibraltar
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Alcidae
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Uria aalge
(Pontoppidan 1763)
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Tyrberg 1999 | ||||||
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Pinguinus impennis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Reptilia
- Suliformes
- Phalacrocoracidae
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Phalacrocorax aristotelis
(Linnaeus 1761)
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Tyrberg 1999 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Procellariidae
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Puffinus puffinus
(Brunnich 1764)
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Tyrberg 1999 | ||||||
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Calonectris diomedea
(Scopoli 1769)
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Tyrberg 1999 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Corvidae
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Cyanopica cyanus
(Pallas 1776)
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Cooper 2000 | 1 specimen | |||||
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= Cyanopica cooki
Bonaparte 1850
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Kryukov et al. 2004 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Gibraltar |
| Coordinates: | 36.1° North, 5.3° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.1° North, 5.3° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 122805 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Uhen, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-01-06 01:36:35 | Last modified: | 2018-06-30 10:00:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-01-06 01:36:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 39151. | C. Mourer-Chauvire. 1999. Influence de l'homme prehistorique sur la repartition de certains oiseaux marins: L'exemple du grand pingouin Pinguinus impennis. 67(4):273-279 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 66213 | J. H. Cooper. 2000. First fossil record of azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyanus in Europe. Ibis 142:150-151 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 66214 | A. Kryukov, M. A. Iwasa, R. Kakizawa, H. Suzuki, W. Pinsker and E. Haring. 2004. Synchronic east–west divergence in azure‐winged magpies (Cyanopica cyanus) and magpies (Pica pica). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 42:342-351 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 75040 | T. Tyrberg. 1999. Seabirds and Late Pleistocene marine environments in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89:139-157 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |