Three islands, three worlds: Paleogeography and evolution of the vertebrate fauna from the Balearic Islands

Bover, Pere Rosselló; Quintana, Josep; Alcover, Josep Antoni

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.039

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“…Auffenberg (1974) recognized G. pertenuis as distinct, and Preston (1979) agreed, adding G. canyonensis (Johnston 1937) to its synonymy. Bramble (1982) agreed that G. canyonensis and G. pertenuis were synonymous, but used the junior synonym G. canyonensis, as did Reynoso and Montellano-Ballesteros (2004) and Bramble and Hutchison (2014) Hay (1908a) noted that Eupachemys obtusus was most similar to Testudo crassiscutata, and possibly synonymous and that E. rugosus was an erroneous name for E. obtusus; the names were subsequently synonymized by Auffenberg (1963Auffenberg ( , 1974. The specific name obtusus is a nomen oblitum, not having been used since 1908, and should not replace the name crassiscutata through priority.…”

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Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians.

Rhodin¹,

Thomson²,

Georgalis³

et al. 2015

Chelonian Research Monographs

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ABsTrAcT. -We provide a first checklist and review of all recognized taxa of the world's extinct Pleistocene and Holocene (Quaternary) turtles and tortoises that existed during the early rise and global expansion of humanity, and most likely went extinct through a combination of earlier hominin (e.g., Homo erectus, H. neanderthalensis) and later human (H. sapiens) exploitation, as well as being affected by concurrent global or regional climatic and habitat changes. This checklist complements the broader listing of all modern and extant turtles and tortoises by the Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (2014). We provide a comprehensive listing of taxonomy, names, synonymies, and stratigraphic distribution of all chelonian taxa that have gone extinct from approximately the boundary between the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, ca. 2.6 million years ago, up through 1500 AD, at the beginning of modern times. We also provide details on modern turtle and tortoise taxa that have gone extinct since 1500 AD. This checklist currently includes 100 fossil turtle and tortoise taxa, including 84 named and apparently distinct species, and 16 additional taxa that appear to represent additional valid species, but are only identified to genus or family. Modern extinct turtles and tortoises include 8 species, 3 subspecies, and 1 unnamed taxon, for 12 taxa. Of the extinct fossil taxa, terrestrial tortoises of the family Testudinidae (including many large-bodied island forms) are the most numerous, with 60 taxa. When the numbers for fossil tortoises are combined with the 61 modern (living and extinct) species of tortoises, of the 121 tortoise species that have existed at some point since the beginning of the Pleistocene, 69 (57.0%) have gone extinct. This likely reflects the high vulnerability of these large and slow terrestrial (often insular) species primarily to human exploitation. The other large-bodied terrestrial turtles, the 000e.2 Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises • Chelonian Research Monographs, No. 5As an addition to the annual checklist of extant modern turtle taxa (Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [TTWG] 2014), we here present an annotated checklist of extinct Pleistocene and Holocene turtle and tortoise species that existed in relatively recent times, prior to 1500 AD, during the history of the rise and global spread of humanity and concurrent global climatic and habitat changes. These species, recorded from archaeological and paleontological sites from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs (Quaternary period), approximately the last 2.6 million years, are currently considered to be valid, and not synonymous with modern (post-1500 AD) taxa.These fossil species, including some unnamed taxa of indeterminate or undescribed generic or specific allocation, represent the majority of the chelonian diversity that has gone extinct relatively recently. Many of these taxa were likely extirpated by anthropogenic exploitation over the relatively long prehistory of earlier hominin (e.g., Homo erectus, H. neanderthalensi...

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Section: Chelonoidis Spp Incertaementioning

confidence: 99%

Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians.

Rhodin¹,

Thomson²,

Georgalis³

et al. 2015

Chelonian Research Monographs

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“…Further information on the whole fossil faunal framework of the Balearic Islands can be found in Bover et al (2014) and references therein. The fossil faunal assemblage of the last 5.35 My of the Balearic Islands is composed of the so-called Myotragus-fauna in Mallorca and the Menorcan Pleistocene and by the Nuralagus-fauna in the Menorcan Pliocene (Bover et al, 2008. In Mallorca, three genera of mammals and a reptile of the original stock that arrived to the island during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) survived until the Holocene: Myotragus (Bovidae, Cetartiodactyla), Hypnomys (Gliridae, Rodentia), Nesiotites (Soricidae, allowed to study the stratigraphy of this zone, and the differences in faunal composition among different layers were analysed (Fornós et al, 2010b).…”

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The Cova des Pas de Vallgornera (Llucmajor, Mallorca): a singular deposit bearing an exceptional well preserved Early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna

Bover¹,

Valenzuela²,

Guerra³

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“…This huge gallery contains a thick detrital infilling (Fornós et al, 2010b) plentiful of osteological remains of Plio-Quaternary fauna. Endemic species of mammals evolved in an isolated insular environment are well represented, including abundant skeletons and skulls of the Myotragus genus, a bovid which arrived in Mallorca and Menorca in Messinian times (Bover et al, 2008(Bover et al, , 2010. The specimens recovered inside the cave correspond to archaic intermediate forms (Fornós et al, 2010b) placed between Myotragus antiquus and Myotragus kopperi, with an age around 2.4-2.6 Ma.…”

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Geologic constraints and speleogenesis of Cova des Pas de Vallgornera, a complex coastal cave from Mallorca Island (Western Mediterranean)

Ginés¹,

Fornós²,

Ginés³

et al. 2014

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Three islands, three worlds: Paleogeography and evolution of the vertebrate fauna from the Balearic Islands

Cited by 78 publications

References 42 publications

Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians.

Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians.

The Cova des Pas de Vallgornera (Llucmajor, Mallorca): a singular deposit bearing an exceptional well preserved Early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna

Geologic constraints and speleogenesis of Cova des Pas de Vallgornera, a complex coastal cave from Mallorca Island (Western Mediterranean)

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