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Alvarez-lao, Diego J.; Kahlke, Ralf-dietrich; Garcia, Nuria; Mol, Dick. |
Fossil remains of at least four mature to old mature male individuals of Mammuthus primigenius have been discovered in a peat-bog of Late Pleistocene age, situated near to the town of Padul in the Granada Basin (Southern Spain). Radiocarbon dates indicate the presence of woolly mammoth in Southern Spain between 35.8 and 25.7 ka BP (40.4-30.6 cal ka BP), a time span corresponding with the later part of MIS 3. The Padul mammoths did not differ morphometrically from individuals of contemporaneous populations of other European regions, but represent the westernmost portion of an extended and continuous Holarctic belt of mammoth distribution. The area immediately northwest of the Pyrenees including a slender belt of dry land along the coast of the Bay of Biscay... |
Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Late Pleistocene; Mammuthus primigenius; Palaeobiogeography; Holarctic; Southern Spain. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00219/33072/31555.pdf |
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