Cueva Victoria: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Apodemus mystacinus
Danford and Alston 1877
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Castillomys crusafonti
Michaux 1969
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Palmqvist et al. 1996 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Allophaiomys chalinei
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Eliomys quercinus
Linnaeus 1766
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Eliomys quercinus ssp. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Oryctolagus cf. lacosti
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Prolagus calpensis
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Theropithecus oswaldi
(Andrews 1916)
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Gibert et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Homo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Pons Moya 1985 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
1 second phalange | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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? Acinonyx sp.
Brookes 1828
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Lynx sp.
Kerr 1792
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= Lynx spelaeus
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Gibert et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Viretailurus schaubi
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= Panthera schaubi
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Gibert et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Panthera gombaszoegensis
(Kretzoi 1938)
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Homotherium latidens
(Owen 1846)
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Palmqvist et al. 1996 | |||||||||
Megantereon sp.
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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= Megantereon cultridens
Cuvier 1824
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Gibert et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Pachycrocuta brevirostris
(Gervais 1850)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Vulpes sp.
Frisch 1775
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Canis etruscus
Forsyth Major 1877
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Xenocyon rosi
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= Xenocyon falconeri
Forsyth-Major 1877
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Rook 1994 | |||||||||
= Canis (Xenocyon) lycaonoides
Kretzoi 1938
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Gibert et al. 1995 | |||||||||
original and current combination Xenocyon lycaonoides | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Caprini indet.
Gray 1821
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cf. Capra sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gibert et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Bovini indet.
Gray 1821
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cf. Hemitragus sp.
Hodgson 1841
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Ovibovini indet.
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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"Cervus" elaphoides
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Megaceros (Megaceros) savini
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synonym of Megaloceros | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus etruscus
(Falconer 1868)
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= Stephanorhinus etruscus
Falconer 1868
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Gibert et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Equus stenonis
Cocchi 1867
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recombined as Allohippus stenonis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Crocidura sp.
Wagler 1832
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Erinaceus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Rhinolophidae
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Rhinolophus cf. mehelyi
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Rhinolophus euryale
Blasius 1853
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Miniopterus sp.
Bonaparte 1837
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Myotis sp.
Kaup 1829
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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:
9374 | PACED | 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] |
9910 | PACED | 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] |
9373 | PACED | 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] |
11044 | PACED | 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] |