Cueva Victoria: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus mystacinus Danford and Alston 1877
Castillomys crusafonti Michaux 1969
Palmqvist et al. 1996
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Allophaiomys chalinei
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus 1766
Eliomys quercinus ssp.
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Oryctolagus cf. lacosti
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus calpensis
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus oswaldi (Andrews 1916)
Gibert et al. 1995
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Homo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Pons Moya 1985 1 specimen
1 second phalange
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
? Acinonyx sp. Brookes 1828
Lynx sp. Kerr 1792
    = Lynx spelaeus
Gibert et al. 1995
Viretailurus schaubi
    = Panthera schaubi
Gibert et al. 1995
Panthera gombaszoegensis (Kretzoi 1938)
Homotherium latidens (Owen 1846)
Palmqvist et al. 1996
Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828
    = Megantereon cultridens Cuvier 1824
Gibert et al. 1995
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Gervais 1850)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775
Canis etruscus Forsyth Major 1877
Xenocyon rosi
    = Xenocyon falconeri Forsyth-Major 1877
Rook 1994
    = Canis (Xenocyon) lycaonoides Kretzoi 1938
Gibert et al. 1995
original and current combination Xenocyon lycaonoides
Mammalia - Bovidae
Caprini indet. Gray 1821
cf. Capra sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gibert et al. 1995
Bovini indet. Gray 1821
cf. Hemitragus sp. Hodgson 1841
Ovibovini indet.
Mammalia - Cervidae
"Cervus" elaphoides
Megaceros (Megaceros) savini
synonym of Megaloceros
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
    = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868
Gibert et al. 1995
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Soricidae
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus cf. mehelyi
Rhinolophus euryale Blasius 1853
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Miniopterus sp. Bonaparte 1837
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Murcia County:Cartagena
Coordinates: 37.6° North, 0.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.7° North, 1.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Dated using micro- and macro- fauna to the Lower Pleistocene (Palmqvist et al), but Carbonell & Rodriguez suggest (Fig. 8) 0.8Ma (ISO 22).
Lithology and environment
Environment:cave
Geology comments: 'During the Plio-Pleistocene, the vertical karst, of Messinian origin, gave rise to cave openings to the exterior, which became filled with bone-bearing breccia.'
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:bone collector
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Metadata
Database number:34911
Authorizer:A. Turner, B. Allen Enterer:H. O'Regan, B. Allen
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-10-15 08:59:42 Last modified:2004-07-05 07:55:51
Access level:the public Released:2003-10-15 08:59:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9372.PACED E. Carbonell, J. Estevez, S. Moya-Sola, J. Pons-Moya, J. Agusti and J. F. Villalta. 1981. Cueva Victoria (Murcia, Espana): Lugar de ocupacion humana mas antiguo de la Peninsula Iberica. Endins, Ciutat de Mallorca 8:47-57 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

9374PACED E. Carbonell and X. P. Rodriguez. 1994. Early Middle Pleistocene deposits and artefacts in the Gran Dolina site (TD4) of the 'Sierra de Atapuerca' (Burgos, Spain). Journal of Human Evolution 26:291-311 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
9910PACED J. Gibert, F. Ribot, L. Gibert, M. Leakey, A. Arribas and B. Martinez. 1995. Presence of the Cercopithecid genus Theropithecus in Cueva Victoria (Murcia, Spain). Journal of Human Evolution 28:487-493 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
9373PACED P. Palmqvist, J. A. Perez-Claros, J. Gibert and J.L. Santamaria. 1996. Comparative morphometric study of a human phalanx from the lower Pleistocene site at Cueva Victoria (Murcia, Spain), by means of Fourier analysis, shape co-ordinates of landmarks, principal and relative warps. Journal of Archaeological Science 23:95-107 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
11044PACED J. Pons Moya. 1985. Nota preliminar sobre el hallazgo de Homo sp. en los rellenos carsticos de Cueva Victoria (Murcia, Espana). Endins 10-11:47-50 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]
85585 L. Rook. 1994. The Plio-Pleistocene Old World Canis (Xenocyon) ex gr. falconeri. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 33(1):71-82 [B. Allen/B. Allen]