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| Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den; Furió, M.. |
| Introduction Spain, with its many Cenozoic continental basins, has one of the finest fossil records of mammals in the world. The presence of nearly continuous sections with mammal localities make some of these basins ideal for defining mammalian continental stages, such as the Ramblian, Aragonian, Vallesian and Turolian. The first mention of fossils mammals in Spain, and one of the first scientific essays on fossil bones in the world, dates back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1736) described the presence of bones near Concud in "El Barranco de las Calaveras" (the valley of the skulls). Feijoo ascribed the numerous bones to a battle in antiquity. More localities were discovered and classical localities like Los... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: 38.22. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317336 |
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