Where: Wales, United Kingdom (53.2° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 53.2° N, 3.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• hominid from the Intermediate Complex, all others from both the Intermediate Complex and the Lower Breccia. Dating done with Uranium series, and thermoluminescence yield dates 200-180kyr
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; coarse-grained, pebbly, cherty/siliceous sandstone and lithified, calcareous breccia
•Breccia units comprise many angular coarse particles, mainly limestone, with medium to strong carbonate cement.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: also includes archaeological material (300 artefacts)
Primary reference: H. S. Green, C. B. Stringer, S. N. Collcutt, A. P. Currant, J. Huxtable, H. P. Schwarcz, N. Debenham, C. Embleton, P. Bull, T. I. Molleson, and R. E. Bevins. 1981. Pontnewydd Cave in Wales -- a new Middle Pleistocene hominid site. Nature 294(24):707-713 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34940: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 20.10.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Panthera sp. Oken 1816 cat
Panthera leo Linnaeus 1758 lion | |
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear | |
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
"Dicerorhinus kirchbergensis" = Dihoplus kirchbergensis
"Dicerorhinus kirchbergensis" = Dihoplus kirchbergensis Jäger 1839 rhinoceros | |
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer | |
Ovis cf. antiqua sheep | |
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver | |
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse | |
Lemmus lemmus Linnaeus 1758 Norway lemming
Microtus gregalis vole
Microtus oeconomus Pallas 1776 tundra vole
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole | |
Ochotona pusilla pika | |
Lepus cf. timidus Linnaeus 1758 mountain hare | |
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