Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe

• Autoři: CASANOVAS-VILAR Isaac; GARCÉS Miguel; MARCUELLO Álex; ABELLA Juan; MADURELL-MALAPEIRA Joan; JOVELLS-VAQUÉ Sílvia; CABRERA Lluís; GALINDO Jordi; BEAMUD Elisabet; LEDO Juan José; QUERALT Pilar; MARTÍ Anna; SANJUAN Josep; MARTÍN-CLOSAS Carles; JIMÉNEZ-MORENO Gonzalo; HERNÁNDEZ LUJÁN Ángel; VILLA Andrea; DEMIGUEL Daniel; SÁNCHEZ Israel M.; ROBLES Josep M.; FURIÓ Marc; OSTENDE Lars W. Van den Hoek; SÁNCHEZ-MARCO Antonio; SANISIDRO Óscar; VALENCIANO Alberto; GARCÍA-PAREDES Israel; ANGELONE Chiara; PONS-MONJO Guillem; AZANZA Beatriz; DELFINO Massimo; BOLET Arnau; GRAU-CAMATS Montserrat; VIZCAÍNO-VARO Víctor; MORMENEO David; KIMURA Yuri; MOYA-SOLA Salvador; ALBA David M.
• Rok publikování: 2022
• Druh: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Časopis / Zdroj: Historical Biology
• Fakulta / Pracoviště MU: Přírodovědecká fakulta
• Citace: CASANOVAS-VILAR, Isaac, Miguel GARCÉS, Álex MARCUELLO, Juan ABELLA, Joan MADURELL-MALAPEIRA, Sílvia JOVELLS-VAQUÉ, Lluís CABRERA, Jordi GALINDO, Elisabet BEAMUD, Juan José LEDO, Pilar QUERALT, Anna MARTÍ, Josep SANJUAN, Carles MARTÍN-CLOSAS, Gonzalo JIMÉNEZ-MORENO, Ángel HERNÁNDEZ LUJÁN, Andrea VILLA, Daniel DEMIGUEL, Israel M. SÁNCHEZ, Josep M. ROBLES, Marc FURIÓ, Lars W. Van den Hoek OSTENDE, Antonio SÁNCHEZ-MARCO, Óscar SANISIDRO, Alberto VALENCIANO, Israel GARCÍA-PAREDES, Chiara ANGELONE, Guillem PONS-MONJO, Beatriz AZANZA, Massimo DELFINO, Arnau BOLET, Montserrat GRAU-CAMATS, Víctor VIZCAÍNO-VARO, David MORMENEO, Yuri KIMURA, Salvador MOYÀ-SOLÀ a David M. ALBA. Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe. Historical Biology. Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022, roč. 34, č. 8, s. 1494-1508. ISSN 0891-2963. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2043296.
• www: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2022.2043296?journalCode=ghbi20
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2043296
• Klíčová slova: Miocene Climatic Optimum; fossil vertebrates; taphonomy; palaeoenvironment; Valles-Penedes Basin; Spain
• Popis: Els Casots is one of the richest fossil vertebrate sites of the Valles-Penedes Basin (Catalonia, Spain). It was discovered in 1989 and excavated briefly during the 1990s, resulting in the recovery of thousands of remains and the erection of several new mammal species. Excavations were resumed in 2018 and continue to date. Here we provide updated results regarding the age, stratigraphy, biota and palaeoenvironment of the site. The age of the site is well constrained to similar to 15.9 Ma thanks to recent bio- and magnetostratigraphic data, thus coinciding with the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO). The stratigraphic succession at the site area indicates lacustrine to palustrine environments with cyclically oscillating water level. There are several fossiliferous layers that have yielded a vertebrate fauna comprising up to 75 different vertebrate species including amphibians, reptiles, birds and mostly mammals. The finding of several articulated partial skeletons indicate that the site records an autochthonous to parautochthonous assemblage. The abundance and completeness of the vertebrate remains together with a well-constrained age and detailed stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental data, make els Casots a key site for understanding wetland ecosystems in southern Europe during the MCO.

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