Oldest European occurence of<i>Meles</i>(Mustelidae, Carnivora) from the Middle Pliocene (Mn16) of Almenara-Casablanca-4 Karstic Site (Castellón, Spain)

Madurell‐Malapeira, Joan; Santos-Cubedo, Andrés; Marmi, Josep

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“…With regard to artiodactyls, Gazella borbonica and Gazelospira torticornis, characteristic of the Middle Villafranchian assemblages, are first recorded in the Iberian Peninsula in localities such as La Puebla de Almoradier, Pozo de Piedrabuena, el Rincón-1 and Las Higueruelas (Alberdi et al, 1997;Mazo et al, 2003;Andrés and DeMiguel, 2008). As far as carnivorans are concerned, the record of Megantereon cultridens and Meles thorali at Villarroya and Almenara-Casablanca 4 apparently represents the first record of these taxa in Europe, suggesting that by this time these species might have been already distributed throughout this continent (Palmqvist et al, 2007;Madurell-Malapeira et al, 2009a, 2011a. Finally, is also noteworthy the first record in the Iberian Peninsula of the cercopithecid Paradolichopithecus at Cova Bonica (Barcelona) (Moyà- Solà et al, 1990).…”

Section: Late Villafranchianmentioning

confidence: 95%

Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

Madurell‐Malapeira

Ros-Montoya²,

Espigares³

et al. 2014

Journal of Iberian Geology

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The Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula is currently a focus of intense paleontological, archaeological and geological research. To a large extent, these inquiries are intended to decipher the ecological factors that might have conditioned early Homo dispersals into the European continent during the late Early Pleistocene. In this respect, the research carried out during the last twenty years in several areas of the Iberian Peninsula (the Guadix-Baza Basin, the Sierra de Atapuerca, the Vallparadís Section and the Banyoles-Besalú Basin) have yielded a large amount of new significant data. Here we review such data and provide for the first time a comprehensive synthesis from a faunal, geological and paleoecological perspectives, by focusing on the relationship between paleoenvironmental conditions and early human dispersals during the late Early Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula. In particular, the Iberian fossil record of Early to Late Villafranchian large mammals is synthesized, on the basis of recent publications and unpublished data collected by the authors during the last five years, in order to provide the adequate faunal and paleocological framework for understanding the factors that limited or conditioned human dispersal events.Keywords: Mammals, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Villafranchian, Iberian Peninsula Resumen El Pleistoceno de la Península Ibérica es actualmente foco de intensa investigación paleontológica, arqueológica y geológica. En gran medida, estos trabajos están encaminados a descifrar los factores ecológicos que podrían haber condicionado las dispersiones de los Homo iniciales hacia Europa durante el Pleistoceno inferior. En este sentido, la investigación realizada durante los últimos veinte años en diversas zonas de la Península Ibérica (la Cuenca de Guadix-Baza, la Sierra de Atapuerca, la Sección de Vallparadís y la Cuenca de BanyolesBesalú) ha proporcionado una gran cantidad de nuevos datos significativos. Aquí revisamos estos datos y se proporciona por primera vez una síntesis exhaustiva desde una perspectiva paleontológica, paleoecológica y geológica, centrándonos en las relaciones entre las condiciones paleoambientales y las dispersiones de los primeros humanos en el Pleistoceno inferior de la Península Ibérica. Concretamente, se sintetiza el registro fósil ibérico de grandes mamíferos villafranquienses en base a publicaciones recientes y datos inéditos recopilados por los autores en los últimos cinco años, para así proporcionar el marco faunístico y paleoecológico adecuado para comprender los factores que limitaron o condicionaron los eventos de dispersión humana.

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Section: Late Villafranchianmentioning

confidence: 95%

Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

Madurell‐Malapeira

Ros-Montoya²,

Espigares³

et al. 2014

Journal of Iberian Geology

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“…The evolution of badgers in Western Europe is still under debate, and new fossils such as the one from Quibas site described herein add new data to the extensive record of Pleistocene-Holocene M. meles from the Iberian Peninsula (Baryshnikov et al 2002;Madurell-Malapeira et al 2009, 2011aGarcía-Martínez et al 2020). Our 2DGM results take into account the morphology of the badger's lower first molar and corroborate its previously stated taxonomic informative value (Madurell-Malapeira et al 2011a, b).…”

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confidence: 74%

2D Geometric morphometrics of the first lower molar of the genus Meles Brisson, 1762 including new badger evidence from the Lower Pleistocene Quibas site (Murcia, Spain)

ROSAS¹,

Soler-Fajardo²,

GARCIA-TABERNERO³

et al. 2023

Comptes Rendus Palevol

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Badgers belong to the genus Meles Brisson, 1762, which comprise four extant species (M. anakuma Temminck, 1844, M. leucurus (Hodgson, 1847), M. canescens Blanford, 1875, and M. meles (Linnaeus, 1758)). The genus is included in the subfamily Melinae Bonaparte, 1838, a polyphyletic group of Eurasian mustelids whose evolutionary relationships need further clarification. The evolutive relationships of the genus are complex and far from being resolved. This work aims to describe a nearly 1 Ma unpublished badger mandible from the Sierra de Quibas (Murcia) and to help clarify the evolutionary patterns of Euroasiatic badgers. To this end, we used 2D geometric morphometric techniques to measure 57 landmarks and semilandmarks in 79 first lower molars (m1) of Meles, ranging from Pleistocene to extant species. Our results show evidence for differentiating between primitive badgers and living species of Meles. The new m1 of Meles from the Quibas site is more gracile (relatively narrower and longer) than the other Eurasian extinct species, and shows that this specimen can be placed in the subspecies M. meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758). Our results also show that the denomination of M. meles atavus Kormos, 1914 as a related subspecies with a primitive morphology is morphologically supported. Therefore, we conclude that the living subspecies of badger M. meles meles was already differentiated in the south of the Iberian Peninsula at around 1 Ma, but some primitive remnant populations persisted in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, for which we recognize the subspecies M. meles atavus.

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“…Although invalid, the name Stephanomys progressus has been used by many authors Sesé, 1984, 1985;Agustí and Galobart, 1986;Agustí et al, 1993aAgustí et al, , 1993bAguilar et al, 1993;Vianey-Liaud and Michaux, 2003;Furió et al, 2005;Madurell-Malapeira et al, 2009), only some of them referring specifically to it as a nomen nudum (Minwer-Barakat et al, 2005;Laplana and Blain, 2008). This species was considered by Ló pez- Martínez et al (1998) to be a synonym of S. balcellsi.…”

Section: Validation Of the Species Stephanomys Progressus A Murid (Rmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Apart from the type locality, S. progressus has been reported in the Spanish site of Gilena (Agusti et al, 1993a), and the level ACB-1 of the karstic complex of Almenara-Casablanca (Agusti and Galobart, 1986;Furio et al, 2005), both dated as earliest Pleistocene. The mention of the species in the level ACB-4 of Almenara-Casablanca, assigned in recent publications to the late Pliocene (MN16, Furio et al, 2007;Furio and Mein, 2008;Madurell-Malapeira et al, 2009) and therefore notably older than the rest of the sites containing S. progressus, seems doubtful. The correct determination of the material from the different levels of the Almenara-Casablanca complex is difficult, since no published descriptions, measurements or illustrations are available.…”

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confidence: 97%

Validation of the species Stephanomys progressus, a murid (Rodentia) from the early Pleistocene of Spain

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The genus Stephanomys (Muridae, Rodentia) is one of the most common elements in the late Miocene to Early Pleistocene mammal faunas from the Ibero-Occitan region. Its geographic distribution is limited to this area with only two mentions in the late Miocene of Italy (de Giuli, 1989) and Algeria (Coiffait et al., 1985). The genus has been subject of numerous studies, some of them suggesting different interpretations on the phylogenetic relationships between the various described species (Gmelig-Meyling and Michaux, 1973; Cordy, 1978; Adrover, 1986; Bachelet and Castillo-Ruiz, 1990; Aguilar et al., 1993). The most extensive and significant study of the genus is the Ph.D. dissertation of Cordy (1976), who studied in detail several samples of Stephanomys, analyzed the changes observed in successive populations and defined four species (S. medius, S. michauxi, S. thaleri and S. progressus), which are considered as nomina nuda because this work was never published. Only one of these species, S. thaleri from the French locality of Seynes, was validated later by López-Martinez et al. (1998).

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Oldest European occurence ofMeles(Mustelidae, Carnivora) from the Middle Pliocene (Mn16) of Almenara-Casablanca-4 Karstic Site (Castellón, Spain)

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

2D Geometric morphometrics of the first lower molar of the genus Meles Brisson, 1762 including new badger evidence from the Lower Pleistocene Quibas site (Murcia, Spain)

Validation of the species Stephanomys progressus, a murid (Rodentia) from the early Pleistocene of Spain

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