Barranco De Los Conejos: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Orcemys giberti n. gen., n. sp. Martin et al. 2017
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 36.8° North, 3.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.8° North, 3.2° West
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: above Olduvai subchron, perhaps 1.5–1.7 Ma
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:190805
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-12-18 10:59:02 Last modified:2017-12-18 10:59:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-18 10:59:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

64131. R. A. Martin, A. Tesakov, J. Agusti and K. Jonston. 2017. Orcemys, un nouveau genre de rongeur arvicolidé du Pléistocène inférieur du bassin de Cadix–Baza, Espagne méridionale. Comptes Rendus Palevol [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]