One million years of cultural evolution in a stable environment at Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

J Rodríguez, F Burjachs, G Cuenca-Bescós… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The present paper analyses the evidence provided by three sites (Sima del Elefante, Gran
Dolina, and Galería) located in the Trinchera del Ferrocarril of the Sierra de Atapuerca …

New stratigraphically constrained palaeoenvironmental reconstructions for the first human settlement in Western Europe: The Early Pleistocene herpetofaunal …

C Sanchez-Bandera, O Oms, HA Blain… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Guadix-Baza
Basin, SE Spain) have yielded abundant Oldowan lithic artifacts and one hominin tooth …

Biochronology of Spanish Quaternary small vertebrate faunas

G Cuenca-Bescos, J Rofes, JM López-García… - Quaternary …, 2010 - Elsevier
Thousands of fossils of small vertebrates are recorded in one of the most complete
stratigraphic sequences of the continental European Pleistocene, in the Sierra de …

The Early–Middle Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental change based on the squamate reptile and amphibian proxies at the Gran Dolina site, Atapuerca, Spain

HA Blain, S Bailon, G Cuenca-Bescós - Palaeogeography …, 2008 - Elsevier
Although still ongoing, the archaeological and palaeontological excavations in the Gran
Dolina cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos) every year since 1976 have already revealed a …

A comparative atlas of the skull osteology of European lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)

A Villa, M Delfino - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The fossil record provides evidence of a long evolutionary history of European lizards. Since
fossil lizards are regularly represented by bone remains, the knowledge of the origins of …

First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia

T Mörs, M Reguero, D Vasilyan - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been
documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a …

Contribution of the palaeoherpetofauna (Amphibia & Squamata) to

HA Blain - Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona, 2009 - raco.cat
La présente publication est une étude des restes fossiles d'amphibiens et de squamates
provenant de 34 gisements espagnols, datés du Pliocène supérieur au Pléistocène moyen …

Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the latest Pleistocene of El Portalón site, Sierra de Atapuerca, northwestern Spain

JM López-García, HA Blain, G Cuenca-Bescós… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
The site of El Portalón is the entrance to the Cueva Mayor karst system, located in the Sierra
de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). This is an important Holocene archaeological site, which was …

Palaeoecology of Neanderthals during Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles in northeastern Iberia (Abric Romaní): from regional to global scale

F Burjachs, JM López-García, E Allué, HA Blain… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
The sequence from Abric Romaní has provided several palaeoecological studies. This
paper presents a synthesis of the results yielded by palynology, including the data from the …

[HTML][HTML] New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities

T Smith, K Kumar, RS Rana, A Folie, F Solé, C Noiret… - Geoscience …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ypresian Cambay Shale Formation at Vastan and Mangrol lignite mines in
Gujarat, western India, has yielded a rich vertebrate fauna with numerous taxa of European …