Ambrona level AS2: Middle Pleistocene, Spain
collected 1993 2000

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847
23 specimens
recombined as Palaeoloxodon antiquus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
4 specimens
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Dama cf. dama (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Soria
Coordinates: 41.2° North, 2.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 2.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from the "Lower Member Complex"
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: "very detritic"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1993 to 2000
Taxonomic list comments:a general list of micromammals is given for the entire Lower Member Complex, but not broken down
Metadata
Database number:73759
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-06-27 15:53:39 Last modified:2007-06-27 18:53:39
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-27 15:53:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24726. E. Soto, C. Sesé, A. Pérez-Gonzalez and M. Santonja. 2001. Mammal fauna with Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus from the lower levels of Ambrona (Soria, Spain). The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome 2001 607-610 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]