Puerto Lobo (Pleistocene of Spain)

Also known as PL

Where: Granada, Spain (37.8° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 2.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Lower Pleistocene.

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: C. Sese. 1989. Micromamiferos del Mioceno, Plioceno y Pleistoceno de la cuenca de Guadix-Baza (Granada). In A.T. Alberdi and F.P. Bonadonna (eds.), Geologia y Paleontologia de la cuenca de Guadix-Baza. Trabajos sobre el Neogeno Cuaternario, Museo National de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid 185-213 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35169: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 17.11.2003

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hauffenia sp. Pollonera 1898 snail
species 1.
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pupilla muscorum Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
Lymnaea palustris Müller 1774 snail
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Apodemus aff. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus, Castillomys crusafonti
"Apodemus aff. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
1 fragmentary lower M1, 1 lower M2, 1 upper M2.
Castillomys crusafonti Michaux 1969 mouse
1 upper M2.
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus (Allophaiomys) cf. burgondiae vole
1 complete and 2 partial lower M1s
Mimomys savini vole
at least 1 specimen, a lower M1
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
5 lower molars and 5 upper molars.
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole
1 upper molar.