Author, as appears in the article.: Martinez-Navarro, Bienvenido; Bartolini Lucenti, Saverio; Palmqvist, Paul; Ros-Montoya, Sergio; Madurell-Malapeira, Joan; Patrocinio Espigares, M.;
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido
Keywords: Quaternary Prey selection Pirro nord New species Late villafranchian Late miocene Human occupation Fossil Evolution Europe Early pleistocene Dispersal Carnivora Canis orcensis n. sp. Canis orcensis n. sp Canids mammalia Canidae
Abstract: The site of Venta Micena (Orce, Spain), c. 1.6 Ma, preserves one the best paleontological records of the early Pleistocene large mammals fauna in Europe. Here we describe the specimens of the genus Canis Linnaeus, 1758 in the context of the late Villafranchian and Epivillafranchian fossil dogs from Eurasia. Anatomical and metric data suggest that the Venta Micena Canis form differs from the classical records of Canis etruscus Forsyth Major, 1877 and Canis arnensis Del Campana, 1913, and that it forms part of the younger Canis mosbachensis Soergel (1925) lineage, also recorded in two slightly younger sites of the Orce site complex, Barranco Leon and Fuente Nueva-3, dated to c. 1.4 Ma. The anatomy of the Venta Micena fossil material shows features that resemble the Canis forms from the Caucasian site of Dmanisi, dated to 1.8 Ma, and Canis ex gr. C. mosbachensis. Nevertheless, dental peculiarities support the creation of a new chrono-species, Canis orcensis n. sp., from the town of Orce. Morphological and paleoecological data suggest that this species probably consumed more vertebrate flesh than other similar sized early Pleistocene canids (i.e., a trend to hypercarnivory), which had more omnivorous dietary habits.
Thematic Areas: Paleontology Geociências Ciências biológicas i Biodiversidade
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: bienvenido.martinez@urv.cat
Record's date: 2024-07-27
Journal volume: 20
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Comptes Rendus Palevol. 20 (17): 297-314
APA: Martinez-Navarro, Bienvenido; Bartolini Lucenti, Saverio; Palmqvist, Paul; Ros-Montoya, Sergio; Madurell-Malapeira, Joan; Patrocinio Espigares, M.; (2021). A new species of dog from the Early Pleistocene site of Venta Micena (Orce, Baza Basin, Spain). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 20(17), 297-314. DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a17
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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