Los fósiles de Vertebrados de Somosaguas (Pozuelo, Madrid)

Abstract

Two vertebrate fossil sites, situated in the Universidad Complutense Campus of Somosaguas, (Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain) have yielded about 600 identifiable rests in different preservation states, belonging to about twenty species of highly diverse sizes, from mastodons to shrews. Their study allows dating at about 14 m.y., and reconstructing an arid climate epoch in 1 Dept. Paleontología, Fac. C. Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid. 2 Dept. Paleobiología, Museo Nacional de CC. Naturales, CSIC, C/ José Gutiérrez Abas cal 2, 28006 Madrid. 69 Nieves López-Martínez, et al. Los fósiles de Vertebrados de Somosaguas the Madrid basin during middle Miocene times, occupied by subtropical woodlands and savannahs with strong floods and without permanent rivers. These fossil sites allow practical teaching of Vertebrate Palaeontology, and preparing university students in the Palaeontological Heritage study and management.