Mestas de Con, Cangas de Onis, Asturias (Pleistocene to of Spain)
Where: Asturias, Spain (43.3° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 5.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)
• Latest Lower Pleistocene/Early Middle Pleistocene. Early Elsterian = Mindel glaciation.
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Crusafont Pairo. 1960. Le Quaternaire Espagnol et sa faune de mammiferes - essai de synthese. Anthropos, supplement 1 (Mammalia Pleistocaenica) 1960(1):55-64 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 49211: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 11.04.2005