Cuenca Bescós, GloriaGarcía García, NuriaVan der Made, Jan2025-09-232025-09-232004Cuenca Bescós, Gloria, et al. «Fossil mammals of the Lower to Middle Pleistocene site of Trinchera Dolina, Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)». Zona arqueológica, n.º 4, 2004, pp. 140-49.1579-7384https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/124230EI yacimiento de Trinchera Dolina es uno de los mas importantes de la Sierra de Atapuerca por su contenido en restos humanos, Homo antecessor en el nivel de Trinchera Dolina 6. Además de esto la enorme riqueza en restos arqueológicos y paleontológicos hace de Trinchera Dolina un yacimiento único, de referencia obligada para el Pleistoceno y Paleolítico de Europa. Bioestratigráficamente, el yacimiento de Trinchera Dolina (TD) puede dividirse en tres grandes unidades: la que comprende los niveles TD3 a TD6; la de los niveles TD7 a TD8 inferior y Ia de TD 8 superior a TD11.Gran Dolina is one of the Pleistocene sites located at the Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain). The Gran Dolina deposits belong to different chronological periods of the Early and Middle Pleistocene. The uppermost levels of Gran Dolina (TDII, TDIO and TD8b) contain Middle Pleistocene (post-Cromerian) macro- and micromammal assemblages. The excavation works have overpassed level TDII and have not concluded yet at TDIO: TDII is poor in macromammal remains (carnivores and herbivores) but rich in rodents. The macromammals fossil material from TDtt is very scarce and this enables (for the macromammals) definite conclusions about the chronology and type of community of these levels. The lowermost levels of Gran Dolina (TD3/4, TD5, TD6 and TD8a) contain a different mammal assemblage with typical late Early Pleistocene-Cromerian species. This radical substitution of taxa is placed at TD8 layer probably due to a stratigraphic gap in this level. The level TD6 of the Gran Dolina site contains the earliest fossil human remains of Europe, Homo antecessor, and it has also a rich and diverse micromammal assemblage. Rodents, insectivores, bats, rabbits as well as birds, lizards and amphibians are well represented: Mimomys savini, Microtus seseae, Stenocranius gregaloides, Terricola arvalidens, Iberomys huescarensis, Allophaiomys chalinei, Pliomys episcopalis, Allocricetus sp., Eliomys sp., Micromys minutus, Apodemus aft. flavicollis, Castor fiber, Marmota sp., Hystrix refossa, Beremendia fissidens, Soricidae spp., Crocidura sp., Talpidae spp., Erinaceus sp., Miniopterus schreibersii, Myotis spp., Rhinolophus spp., Oryctolagus lacosti and Lepus terraerubrae. The large mammals include, Homo antecessor, as well as a diverse large mammal assemblage: Among the herbivorous there are Mammuthus sp., Stephanorhinus etruscus, Equus altidens, Sus scrofa, Dama 'nestii' vallonnetensis, Cervus elaphus acoronatus, Eucladoceros gium, Bison cf. vOigtstedtensis, and the carnivores include Ursus sp., Crocuta crocuta, Mustela palerminea, Lynx sp., Canis mosbachensis and Vulpes praeglacialis. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction based upon the relative proportion and stratigraphical distribution of the mammalian fauna of the Gran Dolina section shows that there are represented several arid, open country phases as well as wetter, warmer and more wooded phases in the sequence of this site.engjournal articlerestricted access569:551.791(460.182)56:551.7(460.182)MamiferosPleistocenoAtapuercaGran DolinaCarnivoresRodentsHerbivoresMiddle and Early PleistoceneBiostratigraphyPaleontología2416.05 Paleontología de Los Vertebrados