Les Deinotherides d'Espagne

Bergounioux, Frederic Marie; Crouzel, F.

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“…Tooth morphology of different deinotheres is quite similar and species are mainly distinguished by size [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] . We compare the Sprendlingen 2 deinotheres with well described and rich samples from three different time periods, comprising three species (following the taxonomic concept of Ginsburg and Chevrier [34] ).…”

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The Antiquity of the Rhine River: Stratigraphic Coverage of the Dinotheriensande (Eppelsheim Formation) of the Mainz Basin (Germany)

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BackgroundMammalian fossils from the Eppelsheim Formation (Dinotheriensande) have been a benchmark for Neogene vertebrate palaeontology since 200 years. Worldwide famous sites like Eppelsheim serve as key localities for biochronologic, palaeobiologic, environmental, and mammal community studies. So far the formation is considered to be of early Late Miocene age (∼9.5 Ma, Vallesian), representing the oldest sediments of the Rhine River. The stratigraphic unity of the formation and of its fossil content was disputed at times, but persists unresolved.Principal FindingsHere we investigate a new fossil sample from Sprendlingen, composed by over 300 mammalian specimens and silicified wood. The mammals comprise entirely Middle Miocene species, like cervids Dicrocerus elegans, Paradicrocerus elegantulus, and deinotheres Deinotherium bavaricum and D. levius. A stratigraphic evaluation of Miocene Central European deer and deinothere species proof the stratigraphic inhomogenity of the sample, and suggest late Middle Miocene (∼12.5 Ma) reworking of early Middle Miocene (∼15 Ma) sediments. This results agree with taxonomic and palaeoclimatic analysis of plant fossils from above and within the mammalian assemblage. Based on the new fossil sample and published data three biochronologic levels within the Dinotheriensand fauna can be differentiated, corresponding to early Middle Miocene (late Orleanian to early Astaracian), late Middle Miocene (late Astaracian), and early Late Miocene (Vallesian) ages.Conclusions/SignificanceThis study documents complex faunal mixing of classical Dinotheriensand fauna, covering at least six million years, during a time of low subsidence in the Mainz Basin and shifts back the origination of the Rhine River by some five million years. Our results have severe implications for biostratigraphy and palaeobiology of the Middle to Late Miocene. They suggest that turnover events may be obliterated and challenge the proposed ‘supersaturated’ biodiversity, caused by Middle Miocene superstites, of Vallesian ecosystems in Central Europe.

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The Antiquity of the Rhine River: Stratigraphic Coverage of the Dinotheriensande (Eppelsheim Formation) of the Mainz Basin (Germany)

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“…Some authors recognized a single valid species of Prodeinotherium in Europe (Bergounioux and Crouzel 1962a;Göhlich 1999;Huttunen 2002aHuttunen ,b, 2004, but most current authors Pickford and Pourabrishami 2013;Aiglstorfer et al 2014;Konidaris et al 2017) distinguish Prodeinotherium cuvieri (Kaup, 1832) from Prodeinotherium bavaricum (von Meyer, 1831).…”

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“…Although P. bavaricum has sometimes been reported to coexist with Deinotherium during the middle Miocene (Bergounioux and Crouzel 1962b;Duranthon et al 2007), this has been questioned or attributed to mixing of reworked faunas by more recent authors Pickford and Pourabrishami 2013;Konidaris et al 2017). According to Konidaris et al (2017), P. cuvieri is recorded during the early Miocene (MN3-MN4) and P. bavaricum during the middle Miocene (MN5-MN6).…”

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“…Prodeinotherium remains are not abundantly represented in the Iberian Peninsula, at least according to the literature. All the remains reported by Bergounioux and Crouzel (1962b) in their review of Spanish deinotheres belong to Deinotherium, except for a few remains from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (see below). Azanza et al (1993) reported a maxillary fragment with P4-M3 from Artesilla (MN4, Calatayud-Teruel Basin, Spain), which is correlated to local subzone Ca, with an estimated age of 16.5 Ma (Van der Meulen et al 2012).…”

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“…The latter authors also reported D. cuvieri from Can Mas, and Crusafont et al (1955) briefly described a lower molar fragment of D. cuvieri from les Escletxes (el Papiol). In turn, Bergounioux and Crouzel (1962b) assigned a partial m3 from Can Mas, seven teeth from les Escletxes del Papiol, and a dp4 from Can Canals to D. bavaricum (as they considered D. cuvieri was merely a synonym). Finally, the record of deinotheres at els Casots and el Canyet was first reported by Moyà Solà and Rius Font (1993) and Casanovas-Vilar et al (2011a), respectively, but their species ascription remains to be determined.…”

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The Record of Prodeinotherium in the Iberian Peninsula: New Data from the Vallès-Penedès Basin

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Deinotheres (Proboscidea, Deinotheriidae) are a clade of non-elephantiform proboscideans that originated in Africa and dispersed into Eurasia by the early Miocene. In Europe, deinotheres are first recorded in Greece during MN3, although they did not become a common faunal element throughout Europe until MN4. Early Miocene (MN3-MN4) deinothere remains from Europe are generally assigned to a different species (Prodeinotherium cuvieri) than those from the early middle Miocene (Prodeinotherium bavaricum; MN5-MN6). In the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula), Prodeinotherium remains are very scarce and largely remain unpublished. To clarify their taxonomic assignment, we describe the available material and compare it with that from elsewhere in Europe. Based on size and a few diagnostic occlusal details, we tentatively recognize both Prodeinotherium cf. P. cuvieri and Prodeinotherium cf. P. bavaricum in the basin. Although all the studied sites had previously been correlated to MN4, the recognition of P. cf. P. bavaricum at els Casots and les Escletxes is consistent with ongoing litho-and magnetostratigraphic studies suggesting a slightly younger age for these sites. The lack of Prodeinotherium remains in older (MN3) localities from the Vallès-Penedès Basin, where Gomphotherium is already recorded, further supports the view that deinotheres dispersed into Western Europe somewhat later than gomphotheres.

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Paleoenvironmental inferences on the Late Miocene hominoid-bearing site of Can Llobateres (NE Iberian Peninsula): An ecometric approach based on functional dental traits

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Casanovas-Vilar,

Žliobaitė

et al. 2023

Journal of Human Evolution

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Les Deinotherides d'Espagne

Abstract: Miocene deinotherids from Vieille Castille, Catalonia, and the Betic zone are described and compared. Certain anatomic features are explained as resulting from geographic isolation, and are not considered valid for proposal of new species.

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The Antiquity of the Rhine River: Stratigraphic Coverage of the Dinotheriensande (Eppelsheim Formation) of the Mainz Basin (Germany)

The Antiquity of the Rhine River: Stratigraphic Coverage of the Dinotheriensande (Eppelsheim Formation) of the Mainz Basin (Germany)

The Record of Prodeinotherium in the Iberian Peninsula: New Data from the Vallès-Penedès Basin

Paleoenvironmental inferences on the Late Miocene hominoid-bearing site of Can Llobateres (NE Iberian Peninsula): An ecometric approach based on functional dental traits

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