Where: Granada, Spain (37.8° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 3.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Early Middle Pleistocene. similar to Mt. Peglia, Betfia 2. (pre-Cromerian).
Environment/lithology: fissure fill
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: N. L. Martinez and A. R. Bustos. 1977. Descubrimiento de dos yacimientos del Pleistoceno medio en el karst de la Sierra Alfaguara (Granada). Sintesis estratigraphica de este periodo en la region Betica. Estudios Geologicos 33:255-265 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34848: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 07.10.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Bufo aff. regularis toad
Bufo bufo Linnaeus 1758 toad | |
Mammalia | |
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840 dormouse | |
Apodemus cf. flavicollis Eurasian field mouse | |
Allophaiomys cf. pliocaenicus Kormos 1932 vole | |
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope | |
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran | |
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear | |
Reptilia | |
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake | |
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 squamates | |
Anguidae indet. Gray 1825 squamates | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird |