Author/Authors :
Arribas Herrera, Alfonso Estación Paleontológica Valle del Río Fardes (Fardes River Valley Palaeontological Station) - Camino del Barranco del Pocico s/n - Comarca de Guadix, Granada, Spain , Garrido Álvarez, Guiomar Estación Paleontológica Valle del Río Fardes (Fardes River Valley Palaeontological Station) - Camino del Barranco del Pocico s/n - Comarca de Guadix, Granada, Spain , Garrido García, José Antonio Estación Paleontológica Valle del Río Fardes (Fardes River Valley Palaeontological Station) - Camino del Barranco del Pocico s/n - Comarca de Guadix, Granada, Spain , García Tortosa, Francisco Juan Universidad de Jaén - Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, Spain , Medialdea Pérez, Cristobal Ayuntamiento (Guadix Town Council) - Plaza de la Constitución, Granada, Spain
Abstract :
Granada Geopark, covering almost all of the Guadix-Baza basin, contains an exceptional
and near-continuous fossil record of the evolution of Pliocene to middle
Pleistocene land mammals (5–0.5 Ma). This period covers the endorheic (closed
drainage basin) stage of this geological basin and, in this chronological framework,
its record of the Quaternary period, mainly the Early Pleistocene, is outstanding
Keywords :
Quaternary , Fossil Record , Large Mammals , Guadix-Baza Basin , Granada Geopark , Heritage , Geoconservation
