New fossil teeth of  Theropithecus oswaldi  (Cercopithecoidea) from the Early Pleistocene at Cueva Victoria (SE Spain)

Ferràndez-Cañadell, Carles; Ribot, F.; Gibert, Luís

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.02.020

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“…CV is well known as an early Pleistocene fossil site with excellently preserved bones of a diverse fauna (Ferràndez-Cañadell et al, 2014; Gibert et al, 2016; Gibert and Ferràndez-Canadell, 2015), including hominin bones (Gibert et al, 2008; Ribot et al, 2015). The fossil-bearing red breccia is covered by a flowstone unit, which occurs throughout the cave and preserves a change in magnetic polarity (Gibert et al, 2016), presumably related to the Brunhes/Matuyama reversal (0.78 Ma).…”

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Speleothem δ¹³C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly?

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South-eastern Spain is one of the driest regions in Europe and thus, prone to drought. Terrestrial climate records covering the late Glacial and Holocene from this area are sparse. Here, we present a flowstone record from Cueva Victoria, south-eastern Spain, which covers the late Glacial (15 ka) to the mid-Holocene (7 ka) including the Younger Dryas (YD). Between the onset of the Bølling/Allerød (B/A) and the early Holocene, flowstone δ18O values progressively decrease in accordance with sea-surface temperatures in the Alboran Sea, indicating an increase in precipitation in south-eastern Spain and a supra-regional signal of North Atlantic temperature change. At the same time, decreasing δ13C values suggest progressively increasing precipitation and vegetation density. This trend is interrupted by both colder and drier conditions during the YD. Between 9.7 ± 0.3 and 7.8 ± 0.2 ka, a large positive excursion of the δ13C values indicates a strong reduction in vegetation density, probably as a consequence of very dry spring/summer conditions. In combination with the continuously low speleothem δ18O values and a nearly unchanged growth rate, this suggests increased seasonality (i.e. drier spring/summer conditions, but not a strong reduction in annual precipitation). This is consistent with several other climate records from the Western Mediterranean region, showing that the Western Mediterranean realm (Spain, Italy) experienced pronounced spring/summer drought during this time interval. Interestingly, the timing of this dry period coincided with the African Humid Period. This may be part of a teleconnection with the North African Monsoon via the Hadley cell circulation.

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Section: Regional Settingmentioning

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Speleothem δ¹³C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly?

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“…Cercopithecid fossil specimens attributed to T. oswaldi, or T. cf. oswaldi have also been recovered at localities outside Africa, such as (Gupta and Sahni, 1981;Delson, 1993;Pickford, 1993), Israel (Belmaker, 2010), and Spain (Gibert et al, 1995;Ferr andez-Cañadell et al, 2014). However, Eurasian Papionini primates are sparsely represented in the fossil record.…”

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Buccal dental-microwear and feeding ecology of Early Pleistocene Theropithecus oswaldi from Cueva Victoria (Spain)

Martínez

Estebaranz‐Sánchez

Ferràndez-Cañadell

et al. 2020

Journal of Human Evolution

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Despite the scarcity of fossil specimens of Theropithecus oswaldi in Eurasia, its presence out of Africa attests to the great dispersal of this Papionini genus during the Early Pleistocene. In the present study, we analyze the buccal dental microwear of T. oswaldi (T. o. leakeyi) fossil specimens from Cueva Victoria (Southeastern Spain). This analysis is the first characterization of the feeding ecology of T. oswaldi in Europe. The buccal microwear pattern of the molar and premolar teeth of T. oswaldi from Cueva Victoria shows great similarities to that observed for the extant frugivorous forest-dwelling Mandrillus sphinx and mangabeys (Cercocebus sp.)dboth species adapted to durophagous dietary habitsdwhile significantly differed from that observed for the gramnivorous Theropithecus gelada. These results suggest that T. oswaldi from Cueva Victoria could have exploited both hard-shelled fruits or seeds and succulent fruits from open and forested Mediterranean ecosystems.

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“…The appearance of the baboon is in Cueva Victoria, just below a palaeomagnetic reversal, that is either interpreted as the lower limit of the Brunhes or the Jaramillo (Ferràndez-Cañadell et al, 2014). Cueva Victoria has a Dama-like deer, that is comparable in size to the Middle Pleistocene species/samples and larger than the Early Pleistocene ones.…”

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“…Material from Pirro Nord was assigned to this genus (Rook et al, 2004), but seems now more probably to belong to Hystrix (Alba et al, 2014). Recently some new dental material was described from Cueva Victoria (Ferràndez-Cañadell et al, 2014), which thus remains the only European locality with this genus.…”

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Faunas from Atapuerca at the Early–Middle Pleistocene limit: The ungulates from level TD8 in the context of climatic change

Made

Rosell

Blasco

2017

Quaternary International

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An extraordinary sequence of fossiliferous levels at the locality of Gran Dolina in the Atapuerca Hills (Burgos, Spain) records the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition. These levels are well dated by a variety of methods, including palaeomagnetism, which locates Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary at the tope of level TD7. Level TD6 is the type site of the species Homo antecessor and yielded over 90% of the European Early Pleistocene human record, while other levels have an archaeological record. The present paper deals with the earliest Middle Pleistocene ungulates of TD8, but we plan to describe the faunas, or at least the ungulates, of levels TD4 to TD8 in the context of the faunal changes that took place around the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition.About 600 fossils could be assigned to a taxon and on this basis the following ungulates are described from TD8: horse Equus altidens, rhinoceros Stephanorhinus aff. etruscus, wild boar Sus scrofa, hippopotamus Hippopotamus sp., red deer Cervus elaphus, giant deer Eucladoceros aff. giulii, giant deer Megaceroides solilhacus, fallow deer Dama vallonnetensis, and bison Bison voigtstedtensis. The evolution of these taxa is discussed. The fauna from level TD8 dates to the earliest Middle Pleistocene (stage 19) and differs from later faunas in the retention of a small rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus aff. etruscus) and the latest representative of the genus Eucladoceros. It differs from earlier faunas in having the striped hyaena. Together with the fauna from TD7, in which the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary is recorded, TD8 will provide the most precise criterions for correlation of the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary on the basis of fossils of large mammals.Profound changes in the global climate system started to take place during the late Early Pleistocene, leading to intensive environmental and faunal change and to human dispersal into Europe. These events mark the beginning of a new time and the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary is taken somewhere in the middle of this drawn out process. It is taken at a palaeomagnetic change, which is convenient, but this does not appear to be close to an important climatic or faunal change. Ten faunal events are recognized in the period from about 1.2 to 0.5 Ma. The event closest to the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary is one of the minor events and up to now it is recorded in only few localities, principally in TD8.

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New fossil teeth of Theropithecus oswaldi (Cercopithecoidea) from the Early Pleistocene at Cueva Victoria (SE Spain)

Cited by 19 publications

References 39 publications

Speleothem δ¹³C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly?

Speleothem δ¹³C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly?

Buccal dental-microwear and feeding ecology of Early Pleistocene Theropithecus oswaldi from Cueva Victoria (Spain)

Faunas from Atapuerca at the Early–Middle Pleistocene limit: The ungulates from level TD8 in the context of climatic change

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New fossil teeth of Theropithecus oswaldi (Cercopithecoidea) from the Early Pleistocene at Cueva Victoria (SE Spain)

Cited by 19 publications

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Speleothem δ13C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly?

Speleothem δ13C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly?

Buccal dental-microwear and feeding ecology of Early Pleistocene Theropithecus oswaldi from Cueva Victoria (Spain)

Faunas from Atapuerca at the Early–Middle Pleistocene limit: The ungulates from level TD8 in the context of climatic change

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Speleothem δ¹³C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly?

Speleothem δ¹³C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly?