Cueto de la Mina (Pleistocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.1° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 4.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Solutrean

Environment/lithology: cave; poorly lithified, silty, conglomeratic sandstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Stuart, L. D. Sulerzhitsky, L. A. Orlova, Y. V. Kuzmin, and A. M. Lister. 2002. The latest woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach) in Europe and Asia: a review of the current evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews 21:1559-1569 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 150207: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.09.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Charadriidae
Pluvialis squatarola1 Linnaeus 1758 black-bellied plover
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larus canus1 Linnaeus 1758 mew gull
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Mergus serrator1 Linnaeus 1758 red-breasted merganser
Amphibia
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo bufo2 Linnaeus 1758 toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana temporaria2 Linnaeus 1758 common frog