The Miocene mammal record of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia)

Casanovas‐Vilar, Isaac; Madern, Anneke; Cabrera, Lluı́s; García-Paredes, Israel; Ostende, Lars W. van den Hoek; DeMiguel, Daniel; Robles, Josep M.; Furió, Marc; Dam, Jan A. van; Garcés, Miguel; Angelone, Chiara; Moyà‐Solà, Salvador

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“…10 the Siwaliks, with maximum change later in time, after 10 Ma (Agusti et al, 2013;Domingo et al, 2014). After adjusting for unevenness in the fossil record, the Vallesian crisis in the Spanish fossil record is seen to be less abrupt than previously thought, but still significant, and postdates Siwalik events (Casanovas-Vilar et al 2014, 2016. (Tang et al 2015), with decreased micromammal diversity, moist conditions in North China (Fortelius et al, 2014) led to high diversity among both ungulates and small mammals (see also Flynn et al 2011).…”

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Siwalik synopsis: A long stratigraphic sequence for the Later Cenozoic of South Asia

Flynn

Pilbeam

Barry

et al. 2016

Comptes Rendus Palevol

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The Tertiary sediments of northern Pakistan are an exceptional record of terrestrial sedimentation and represent most of Neogene time. Foremost is the Siwalik Group of the Potwar Plateau, for which multiple, superposed fossil levels span ~18 -6 Ma. Welldeveloped magnetostratigraphic control provides secure dating so that Siwalik fossil horizons may be interpolated into a time scale with resolution to 100,000 years. We describe the geographic setting of the Potwar, give an overview of the temporal distribution of faunas, and discuss changes in paleohabitat and paleoecology with latter deposits are Oligocene in age (Welcomme et al., 2001). Together they produce a rich record of successive faunas that can be studied for questions on lineage evolution, community structure, and faunal change.The Siwaliks and related formations have been the subject of field exploration for almost 200 years. Early collecting was sporadic, with little attention paid to provenance, but it provided impetus for later expeditions. Two of these were collecting campaigns under the direction of Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History in the 1920s and G. Edward Lewis of Yale University in the 1930s. Their collecting (Lewis, 1937) was geographically controlled and today we can reconstruct in general where many of their collections were made. Richard Dehm (Dehm et al., 1958), Universität München expeditions of 1939 and 1955-56, and G.H.R. von Koenigswald, Rijksuniversiteit, Universiteit Utrecht (1966, also recorded data for fossils recovered by their groups.However, the potential for biostratigraphic study of long sections in defined areas was still largely unrealized.It is now feasible to record precisely the level of occurrence of superposed stratigraphic horizons that produce fossils. The sequence of sites records the local histories of organisms during much of the Miocene Epoch, both changes among members in associated faunas as well as evolution within lineages. The fossil horizons of the Potwar Plateau can be dated relative to one another, and ages can generally be resolved on the scale of 100,000 years for the interval of approximately 18 to 6 Ma . The Siwaliks present a special geobiological case in which many successive and dated levels can be sampled for their often abundant vertebrate fossils and ecological proxies, affording an excellent opportunity to document changes in landscapes, habitats, and faunas through time. The dimensions of information that can be retrieved from the Siwaliks are considerable compared to other sequences of comparable age.In the following, we discuss the geological and geographic setting for the major fossil-producing regions of the Indian Subcontinent. We sketch the history of exploration by early workers in the Indian Subcontinent. We touch on major features of the terrestrial deposits and age determination, and then turn to our current assessments of faunas and paleohabitats of the Miocene. Major Fossil-Producing Sequences and History of ExplorationEarly fossil collecting invo...

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Siwalik synopsis: A long stratigraphic sequence for the Later Cenozoic of South Asia

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Pilbeam

Barry

et al. 2016

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“…The remains described here were found stratigraphically 1.5 m below locality ROS-D6, which on the basis of micromammals is correlated to the upper part of MN10 Casanovas-Vilar et al 2015). More precisely, ROS-D6 is tentatively correlated to the Rotundomys bressanus local subzone of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Casanovas-Vilar et al 2015), with an estimated age of ca. 9.4-9.1 Ma, although alternatively it might, like SMT, belong to the older Rotundomys montisrotundi local subzone, which has an estimated age of 9.6-9.4 Ma (Casanovas-Vilar et al 2015).…”

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“…More precisely, ROS-D6 is tentatively correlated to the Rotundomys bressanus local subzone of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Casanovas-Vilar et al 2015), with an estimated age of ca. 9.4-9.1 Ma, although alternatively it might, like SMT, belong to the older Rotundomys montisrotundi local subzone, which has an estimated age of 9.6-9.4 Ma (Casanovas-Vilar et al 2015).…”

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A New Skull of Hyaenictis Gaudry, 1861 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) Shows Incipient Adaptations to Durophagy

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The European Miocene records a wide diversity of hyaenid ecomorphotypes represented by multiple genera. Among these, Hyaenictis is one of the least known. This genus includes four species from the late Miocene and Pliocene of the Old World, but in Europe Hyaenictis is only represented by two species, recorded by scarce and fragmentary remains: Hyaenictis graeca from Pikermi (MN12; Greece) and Hyaenictis almerai from Sant Miquel de Toudell (MN10; Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberia). Here we describe a new skull of Hyaenictis aff. almerai from the Vallès-Penedès site of Ronda Oest Sabadell Sector D (MN10), representing the most complete European specimen of the genus. In the presence of m2 and virtual lack of m1 metaconid, the described cranium more closely resembles Hyaenictis rather than any other medium to large-sized European hyaenid. However, the new skull does not fit well with previously known Hyaenictis species, more closely resembling the bone-cracking Adcrocuta in the development of premolar accessory cuspids and the possession of relatively broad cheek teeth. These and other features (strong mandibular muscular insertions and enamel microstructure) denote more durophagous adaptations than previously documented in Hyaenictis (considered a cursorial/dog-like hyaena), and favor the inclusion of H. aff. almerai in the transitional bone-cracking hyaenid ecomorphotype.

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“…When biostratigraphic data are also taken into account, it emerges that the whole ACM sequence is late Aragonian in age, its lower-most portion being correlated to MN6 and the rest to MN7þ8 (the boundary between these zones being locally estimated at 12.4 Ma, as defined by the first appearance of Megacricetodon ibericus; Casanovas-Vilar et al, 2016). According to the latest rodent-based local biozonation of the Vall es-Pened es Basin (Casanovas-Vilar et al, 2015, 2016, the ACM sequence spans three subzones of the Hispanomys Assemblage Zone: the lower-most part of the sequence is correlated with the Megacricetodon crusafonti þ Democricetodon larteti Concurrent Range Subzone (12.6e12.38 Ma), followed by the M. crusafonti e Democricetodon crusafonti Interval Subzone (12.38e11.87 Ma), and finally the D. crusafonti e Hippotherium Interval Subzone (11.87e11.18 Ma). The upper part of the last, shortly after the middle/late Miocene transition at 11.625 Ma (Hilgen et al, 2012), is not recorded at ACM, although it would be represented by the classical locality of Can Mata 1 (ca.…”

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Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)

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Casanovas‐Vilar

Garcés

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Journal of Human Evolution

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The Miocene mammal record of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia)

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Siwalik synopsis: A long stratigraphic sequence for the Later Cenozoic of South Asia

Siwalik synopsis: A long stratigraphic sequence for the Later Cenozoic of South Asia

A New Skull of Hyaenictis Gaudry, 1861 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) Shows Incipient Adaptations to Durophagy

Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)

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