Biomarcadores, flora y fauna de la base de la serie de Venta Micena (Orce, Granada). Información paleoambiental

Abstract

The information provided by thè biomarkers extracted from the sediments recovered in the bottom of Venta Micena stratigraphic section, together with pollen data and supported by studies about its fauna (ostracodes and vertebrates), indicate that this area was constituted in a low-saline and shallow lacustrine-palustrine environment with stagnant waters surrounded by high-plants (pinacea and dicotyledoneus) under warm and arid climatic conditions