Author, as appears in the article.: Ros-Montoya S; Bartolini-Lucenti S; Espigares MP; Palmqvist P; Martínez-Navarro B
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido
Keywords: Western-europe Vertebrates Middle pleistocene Martellictis ardea Guadix-baza basin Fuente nueva 3 Fossil Fillings Evolution Europe Early humans Discovery Barranco león
Abstract: Two archaeo-palaeontological lower Pleistocene sites of orce (Baza Basin, Se Spain), Fuente nueva 3 (1.3 Ma) and Barranco león (1.4 Ma), preserve some of the earliest evidences of human presence in the european continent. During the 2013 field season, a small Lyncodontini mustelid mandible was found at Fuente Nueva-3. This finding was accompanied by a lower canine (c1), also from the same site, and a lower fourth premolar (p4) from Barranco león. Here, we report on the morphological and biometrical study of these materials, in comparison to other Eurasian Pliocene-Pleistocene species of the tribe Lyncodontini. The analyses revealed an affinity between the taxon from Fuente nueva-3 and Barranco león with the small-sized european species Martellictis ardea (gervais, 1848-1852), allowing us to ascribe the described material to the latter species. the presence of M. ardea in the sites of orce is the southernmost occurrence of the species in the Iberian Peninsula and an important finding in the scarce fossil record of lyncodontini in europe.
Thematic Areas: Stratigraphy Paleontology Medicina ii Geology Geociências 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
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/15132
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia. 127 (1): 33-47
APA: Ros-Montoya S; Bartolini-Lucenti S; Espigares MP; Palmqvist P; Martínez-Navarro B (2021). First review of lyncodontini material (Mustelidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) from the lower pleistocene archaeo-palaeontological sites of orce (Southeastern Spain). Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia, 127(1), 33-47. DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/15132
Article's DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/15132
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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