Also known as Valdeganga II

Where: Albacete, Spain (39.2° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Valdeganga Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Late Pliocene, MN16b. The same bed outcrops at about 5 different places, at a level about 15m above Valdeganga 1.

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• Mammoth tooth not recovered from the sample, but found elsewhere.

Primary reference: P. Mein, E. Moissenet, and G. Truc. 1978. Les Formations continentales du Neogene superieur des vallees du Jucar et du Cabriel au ne d'Albacete (Espagne). Biostratigraphie et environment. Documents des laboratoires de Geologie de Lyon 72:99-147 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41932: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 22.07.2004, edited by Lars van den Hoek Ostende

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