The Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic from the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain): 60Myr of environmental evolution in the frame of the western peri-Tethyan palaeogeography

Gretter, Nicola; Ronchi, Ausonio; López-Gómez, Julián; Arché, Alfredo; Horra, Raúl de la; Barrenechea, José F.; Lago, M.

doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.09.001

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“…Our results are further compared with those from nearby and equivalent localities (Nagtegaal, 1969;Besly and Collinson, 1991;Gretter et al, 2015;Mujal et al, 2016a). Our sedimentological interpretations follow the reference works by Miall (1985Miall ( , 1992 and Gretter et al (2015). Furthermore, we coupled our results with the fluvial facies classification of Gretter et al (2015), which is summarized in Supplementary Table S1.…”

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“…During the late Paleozoic, the collision of Gondwana and Laurussia landmasses resulted in the equatorial Variscan orogenic belt (Pereira et al, 2014). At the southern margin of the Variscan mountains in Central equatorial Pangea (Western Tethys margin), the Pyrenean region (NE Iberian microplate) displayed several continental depocenters of half-graben geometry and bounded by strike-slip faults derived from a dextral-transpression tectonic activity (in the whole the Pyrenean rift system, divided in sub-basins; Gisbert, 1981;Speksnijder, 1985;Saura and Teixell, 2006;Gretter et al, 2015). The infilling of such depocenters started in the late Carboniferous and persisted until the Middle Triassic marine transgression (Mujal et al, 2017).…”

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“…Such regions include central and eastern Europe Eros et al, 2012;Opluštil et al, 2013Opluštil et al, , 2017a) and the French Lodève Basin Lopez et al, 2008;Michel et al, 2015Michel et al, , 2016. In fact, C-P terrestrial successions of southwestern Europe (Western Tethys or eastern equatorial Euramerica) are mostly characterized by large stratigraphic hiatuses, both due to erosion and/or lack of sedimentation (Cassinis et al, 2013;Gretter et al, 2015). Nevertheless, some regions record relatively long and continuous successions, such as the case here studied.…”

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Aridification across the Carboniferous–Permian transition in central equatorial Pangea: The Catalan Pyrenean succession (NE Iberian Peninsula)

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The Carboniferous-Permian terrestrial successions record a global climatic shift from icehouse to hothouse conditions. Our multidisciplinary study documents an aridification trend throughout the ~1000 m thick composite terrestrial succession of the western Catalan Pyrenees (NE Iberian Peninsula), representing this time period. The detailed stratigraphic framework integrates sedimentology, paleopedology, biochronology (plant 2 fossils and tetrapod footprints) and geochronology (paleomagnetism). Additional absolute age correlation is also carried out. The new and reviewed data show that the late Carboniferous wet environments (with short drought periods) progressively changed to a strong seasonal semi-arid and arid climate (with short humid periods) through the early Permian. This paleoclimatic trend supports the previously suggested aridification of the Pangean pan-tropical belt, and supports the hypothesis of the influence of the recurrent climatic fluctuations in Central Pangea, being tentatively correlated to the Southern Gondwanan glaciation-deglaciation periods. Therefore, the Carboniferous-Permian terrestrial succession from the Catalan Pyrenees emerges as a continuous record that can help to constrain late Paleozoic paleoenvironmental events.

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Aridification across the Carboniferous–Permian transition in central equatorial Pangea: The Catalan Pyrenean succession (NE Iberian Peninsula)

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“…Séguret (1972) and Zwart (1979) conducted the basic regional geology and mapping, and recent structural works are those of Saura (2004) and Saura and Teixell (2006). The basin architecture and evolution has been largely studied (Speksnijder, 1985;Saura and Teixell, 2006;Izquierdo-Llavall et al, 2014;Gretter et al, 2015). A revision of the Triassic vertebrate content has been addressed by Fortuny et al (2011a), and more recently Mujal et al (2016Mujal et al ( , 2017 revised and provided new data on the Permo-Triassic transition.…”

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“…In the earliest Triassic, the Pyrenees were composed of several continental sedimentary basins developed in the latest phases of the Variscan cycle, resulting from a strike-slip (transtentional) tectonic activity (Speksnijder, 1985;Saura, 2004;Saura and Teixell, 2006;Izquierdo-Llavall et al, 2014;Gretter et al, 2015). In this extensional regime, the Triassic sediments covered the Variscan basement and the Permo-Carboniferous vulcanosedimentary sequences, configuring an erosive angular unconformity.…”

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First direct archosauromorph remains from the Early-Middle Triassic transition of the Iberian Peninsula

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Fortuny

Mujal

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This paper discusses the taxonomic affinities of three isolated teeth discovered in the Buntsandstein facies of the Catalan Coastal Ranges and central-eastern Pyrenean basins that crop out in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. The tooth crowns are blade-like, labiolingually compressed, distally recurved, and proportionally apicobasally tall, in which the most complete of them is at least 2.4 times taller than its mesiodistal depth at base. The distal margins possess a densely serrated carina, and the mesial margins lack carina and serrations. The enamel of the crowns lacks ornamentation (e.g., wrinkles, ridges) or macroscopic wear-facets. The three teeth are referred to indeterminate crocopodan archosauromorphs based on the presence of labiolingually compressed and serrated crowns. The absence of mesial denticles resembles the condition in the non-archosauriform archosauromorph Teyujagua, proterosuchids, and some more crownward archosauriforms (e.g., some proterochampsids). We could not find evidence to determine if these teeth belong to a single or multiple closely related species. These remains represent the first direct archosauromorph remains from Lower−Middle Triassic beds of the Iberian Peninsula and add information about the geographic distribution of the group during the dawn of the evolutionary radiation of the group. Martín D. Ezcurra. Sección Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Av.

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Tectonics and Geodynamics of the Variscan Cycle in the Pyrenees

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The Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic from the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain): 60Myr of environmental evolution in the frame of the western peri-Tethyan palaeogeography

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Aridification across the Carboniferous–Permian transition in central equatorial Pangea: The Catalan Pyrenean succession (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Aridification across the Carboniferous–Permian transition in central equatorial Pangea: The Catalan Pyrenean succession (NE Iberian Peninsula)

First direct archosauromorph remains from the Early-Middle Triassic transition of the Iberian Peninsula

Tectonics and Geodynamics of the Variscan Cycle in the Pyrenees

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