Estudio osteométrico preliminar de los restos de ciervo (Cervus elaphus) del yacimiento paleontológico del Pleistoceno Superior de Kiputz IX (Mutriku, Gipuzkoa)

  1. Castaños de la Fuente, Jone
  2. Castaños Ugarte, Pedro María
  3. Murelaga Bereicua, Xabier
Revue:
Geogaceta

ISSN: 0213-683X

Année de publication: 2006

Número: 40

Pages: 163-166

Type: Article

D'autres publications dans: Geogaceta

Résumé

This work provides the first news about the recovered fauna from the Late Pleistocene site of Kiputz IX (Mutriku, Gipuzkoa). It describes the site stratigraphy as well as the preliminary listing of the identified fauna furthermore of the geographic and geologic cave context. It also describes the anatomic distribution of red deer remains and its relation with the taphonomic origin, offering the osteometric description of red deer. For this purpose statistical values of the main bones are gathered to emphasize its interest as a representative pattern of this species in the Late Pleistocene.