Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a Pleistocene lacustrine sequence from faunal assemblages and ostracode shell geochemistry, Baza Basin, SE Spain

We have reconstructed the Early Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental record for a shallow lacustrine sequence from the Baza Basin (Southern Spain), using faunal assemblages and the shell chemistry of two ostracode species (Candona sp. and Cyprideis torosa). In the NE basin sector (Orce area), a Lower Pleistocene lacustrine sequence, up to 10 m thick, contains alternating phases of two fossil assemblages which differ in their salinity requirements....