Cuenca-Bescós G, Laplana Conesa C, Canudo J I, Arsuaga J L
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.
J Hum Evol. 1997 Aug-Sep;33(2-3):175-90. doi: 10.1006/jhev.1997.0153.
A small collection of rodents from Sima de los Huesos helps to clarify the stratigraphic position of this famous human locality. The presence of Allocricetus bursae and Pliomys lenki relictus and the size of A. bursae, Apodemus sylvaticus and Eliomys quercinus suggest a Middle Pleistocene age (Saalian) to the Clays where humans have been found.
来自西玛德洛斯休索斯的一小批啮齿动物有助于厘清这个著名人类遗址的地层位置。布氏异仓鼠和残余林姬鼠的存在,以及布氏异仓鼠、森林姬鼠和栎林睡鼠的体型,表明发现人类遗骸的粘土层的年代为中更新世(萨勒冰期)。