Where: Spain (37.7° N, 2.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 2.1° E)
When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified carbonate
•the ponds had filled with micrite sediment, water rising
•through it carried calcium carbonate upwards to be
•deposited as a soft caliche-type calcrete around the
•vertebrate bones
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. M. Navarro and P. Paulmqvist. 1995. Presence of the African Machairodont Megantereon whitei (Broom, 1937) (Felidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) in the Lower Pleistocene Site of Venta Micena (Orce, Granada, Spain), with some Considerations on the Origin, Evolution and Dispersal of the Genus. Journal of Archaeological Science 22(4):569-582 [M. Uhen/S. Paxson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188668: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Stephanie Paxson on 11.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Megantereon whitei Broom 1937 cat | |