Can Pallars i Llobateres: A new hominoid-bearing locality from the late Miocene of the Valles-Penedes Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.008" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.008</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.008" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.008</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Can Pallars i Llobateres: A new hominoid-bearing locality from the late Miocene of the Valles-Penedes Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Original language description

In the Iberian Peninsula, Miocene apes (Hominoidea) are generally rare and mostly restricted to the Valles-Penedes Basin. Here we report a new hominoid maxillary fragment with M-2 from this basin. It was surface-collected in March 2017 from the site of Can Pallars i Llobateres (CPL, Sant Quirze del Valles), where fossil apes had not been previously recorded. The locality of provenance (CPL-M), which has delivered no further fossil remains, is located very close (ca. 50 m) to previously known CPL outcrops, and not very far (ca. 500 m in NW direction) from the classical hominoid-bearing locality of Can Poncic 1. Here we describe the new fossil and, based on the size and proportions of the M2, justify its taxonomic attribution to Hispanopithecus cf. laietanus, a species previously recorded from several Vallesian sites of the Valles-Penedes Basin. Based on the associated mammalian fauna from CPL, we also provide a biochronological dating and a paleoenvironmental reconstruction for the site. The associated fauna enables an unambiguous correlation to the Cricetulodon hartenbergeri - Progonomys hispanicus interval local subzone, with an estimated age of 9.98-9.73 Ma (late Vallesian, MN10). Therefore, CPL-M is roughly coeval with the Hispanopithecus laietanus-bearing localities of Can Llobateres 1 and Can Feu 1, and minimally older than those of La Tarumba 1 and Can Llobateres 2. In contrast, CPL-M is younger than the early Vallesian (MN9) localities of Can Poncic 1 (the type locality of Hispanopithecus crusafonti) as well as Polinya 2 (GabarrO) and EstaciO Depuradora d'Aigues Residuals -Riu Ripoll 13, where Hispanopithecus sp. is recorded. The associated fauna from CPL indicates a densely forested and humid paleoenvironment with nearby freshwater. This supports the view that Hispanopithecus might have been restricted to dense wetland forests soon before its extinction during the late Vallesian, due to progressive climatic deterioration. Coupled with the existence of other fossiliferous outcrops in the area, this find is most promising for the prospect of discovering additional fossil hominoid remains in the future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Human Evolution

ISSN

0047-2484

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

121

Issue of the periodical within the volume

AUG 2018

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

193-203

UT code for WoS article

000440389700015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85047196181