Also known as Quibas

Where: Murcia, Spain (38.2° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• site is the filling of a karstic cavity, the majority of specimens were collected from the ground surface. Two levels in the lower part of the detritic sequence are very rich in fossils. Dated using microfauna to between 1.3-1.0Ma.

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• Site found in 1994 by the "Grupe Cultural Paleontologico de Elche" (Alicante)

Primary reference: P. Montoya, M. T. Alberdi, L. J. Barbadillo, J. Made, J. Morales, X. Murelaga, E. Penalver, F. Robles, A. R. Bustos, A. Sanchez, B. Sanchiz, D. Soria, and Z. Szyndlar. 2001. Une faune tres diversifee du Pleistocene inferieur de la Sierra de Quibas (province de Murcia, Espagne). Comptes Rendus de L'Academie des Sciences Serie II Fasicule A - Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 332:387-393 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 34128: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 20.08.2003, edited by Gemma Benevento

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