Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe
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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.
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| Rok publikování |
2022 |
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Článek v odborném periodiku
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Historical Biology |
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Přírodovědecká fakulta
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2022.2043296?journalCode=ghbi20
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2043296 |
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Miocene Climatic Optimum; fossil vertebrates; taphonomy; palaeoenvironment; Valles-Penedes Basin; Spain
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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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