Joan Madurell‐Malapeira

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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David M. Alba

Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

Saverio Bartolini Lucenti

University of Florence

Bienvenido Martínez‐Navarro

Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social

Lorenzo Rook

University of Florence

Salvador Moyà‐Solà

Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

Paul Palmqvist

Universidad de Málaga

María Patrocinio Espigares Ortiz

Universidad de Málaga

Sergio Ros-Montoya

Universidad de Málaga

María Prat-Vericat

Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

Leonardo Sorbelli

Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

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Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Universitat de Barcelona

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Sapienza University of Rome

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The last Plio-Pleistocene hipparions of Western Eurasia. A review with remarks on their taxonomy, paleobiogeography and evolution

Quaternary Science Reviews (2023)

Omar Cirilli Luca Pandolfi David M. Alba Joan Madurell‐Malapeira Maia Bukhsianidze

Plio-Pleistocene

Peninsula

Early Pleistocene

Chronology

Biochronology

10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107976

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Fuente Nueva 1: El registro más antiguo del Pleistoceno Inferior de Orce

Sergio Ros Montoya Bienvenido Martínez‐Navarro María Patrocinio Espigares Ortiz Juan Manuel Jiménez Arenas Joan Madurell‐Malapeira

Fuente Nueva 1 is a paleontological site known since the 1980’s, but few excavations have taken place in this locality during the time elapsed from its discovery. The last excavation season, in the summer of 2015, has unearthed more than 250 bone remains of large mammals. It should be notedthe appearance of more than 30 horn cores, mostly complete, from the small-to-medium sized bovid Gazella borbonica. The other bovid present in the site, Gacellospira torticornisis only recorded by a horn core fragment. The second species most abundantly preserved is the equid Equus stenonis. In addition, Mammuthus meridionalis, Stephanorhinus etruscus and two carnivorous, Pliocrocuta perrieri and Canidae indet., are recorded by several dental remains. The rest of the record is composed of elements that were only classified by the moment to family level, belonging to a Caprine, a Cervid and a Chelonid. This faunal record allows us to affirm that Fuente Nueva 1 is the oldest site of the Orce area with an Early Pleistocene age, with a chronology very interesting for the study of the Middle Villafranchian mammalian assemblages.

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Latest Early Pleistocene wolf-like canids from the Iberian Peninsula

Quaternary Science Reviews (2017)

Saverio Bartolini Lucenti David M. Alba Lorenzo Rook Salvador Moyà‐Solà Joan Madurell‐Malapeira

Early Pleistocene

Peninsula

10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.023

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A review on the Pleistocene occurrences and palaeobiology of Hippopotamus antiquus based on the record from the Barranc de la Boella Section (Francolí Basin, NE Iberia)

Quaternary Science Reviews (2023)

Darío Fidalgo Antonio Rosas Joan Madurell‐Malapeira Antonio Pineda Rosa Huguet

The study of European Pleistocene Hippopotamus presents unresolved questions and a lack of consensus among specialists being matter of hotly debate in the last decades. The number of taxa, their geographical and chronological distribution and their palaeobiological affinities are still under evaluation. The present work presents the results of comparative analyses using descriptive anatomy, linear biometry and geometric morphometrics of Hippopotamus specimens found in the archaeopalaeontological outcrops of the Barranc de la Boella Section (Francolí Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) and other coeval European sites in the context of the record of the genus Hippopotamus in Europe and its putative migrations from Africa. The deposits from Barranc de la Boella Section documented for the first time the presence of hominids with Acheulian technology and hippos roughly coinciding with the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT), one of the periods with strongest climate asymmetry throughout the Pleistocene. The evaluation of the studied specimens and the other European record favor the consideration of Hippopotamus antiquus as the only taxon of its family present in Europe from the Early Pleistocene (ca. 2.1 Ma) to the mid-Middle Pleistocene (ca. 0.4 Ma), when the extant species (Hippopotamus amphibius) dispersed from Africa. Even so, there is a need for a more detailed understanding of the large intraspecific variability and sexual dimorphism reported within the genus Hippopotamus to characterise the phenotype of individuals in its populations across different chronologies, geographic locations, and environmental conditions. The detailed review of the distribution of H. antiquus during the EMPT raises the possibility that the Iberian and Italic peninsulas acted as climatic refugia for its populations strongly dependents of the aquatic environment during the coldest climatic stages (e.g. MIS 22).

Hippopotamus

10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108034

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Los mamíferos del Plioceno y Pleistoceno de la Península Ibérica

PH. Boletín del Instituto Andaluza del Patrimonio Histórico/PH/PH. Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico/Boletín informativo - Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (2018)

Bienvenido Martínez‐Navarro Sergio Ros-Montoya María Patrocinio Espigares Ortiz Joan Madurell‐Malapeira Paul Palmqvist

España es el país con mayor número de yacimientos bien conservados, cantidad y calidad de fósiles de todo el continente europeo. Aquí se describe el patrimonio paleobiológico correspondiente al Plio-Pleistoceno (últimos 5,3 millones de años) registrado en los principales yacimientos con presencia de fósiles de grandes mamíferos de la Península Ibérica. Ningún otro país de nuestro entorno al norte del Mediterráneo ofrece mayores posibilidades para el estudio y disfrute de los registros paleontológicos del Plioceno y Pleistoceno. En este contexto destacan las principales cuencas sedimentarias como las de Besalú-Bañolas, Vallés, Calatayud-Teruel, o ya en el sur las cuencas intrabéticas, donde merece especial interés la de Baza y Guadix, con localidades emblemáticas como Baza 1 para el Plioceno, y como los yacimientos de Orce (Fuente Nueva 1 y 3, Venta Micena o Barranco León, entre otros) para el Pleistoceno inferior. También se hace referencia a otro tipo de yacimientos, como son los maares volcánicos pliocénicos del Camp dels Ninots en Cataluña, o el de las Higueruelas en la Mancha, a las terrazas fósiles de los grandes ríos peninsulares, así como a los extraordinarios registros kársticos, donde destaca el de Atapuerca en Burgos. Afortunadamente, este patrimonio es ya muy conocido y estudiado, y está publicado en las mejores revistas científicas mundiales. Sin embargo, salvo en el caso puntual de Atapuerca, su divulgación no ha llegado todavía a calar en el gran público, y su explotación cultural y turística necesita de un fuerte impulso en años venideros.

10.33349/2018.0.4203

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The earliest European badger (Meles meles), from the Late Villafranchian site of Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, SE Iberian Peninsula)

Comptes Rendus Palevol (2011)

Joan Madurell‐Malapeira Bienvenido Martínez‐Navarro Sergio Ros-Montoya María Patrocinio Espigares Ortiz Isidro Toro

Meles

Peninsula

Mustelidae

10.1016/j.crpv.2011.06.001

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The Fox from Bajiazui (Qingyang, Central China) and an Update on Early Pleistocene Foxes from China

Quaternary (2023)

Saverio Bartolini Lucenti Qigao Jiangzuo Hao Jiang Zhaoyu Li Kun Xie

(1) Background: despite the fact that nowadays the genus Vulpes Frisch, 1775, is the most diverse among extant Canidae, its fossil record is utterly scarce, especially in the Asian Pliocene. The sparse nature of this record further complicates the reconstruction of the evolutionary scenario to fit these taxa with extant species. The situation seems to change slightly in the Early Pleistocene when two species are recorded: Vulpes alopecoides (Del Campana, 1913) in Europe and Vulpes chikushanensis, Young, 1930, in Asian localities. Unlike the former, which has an extensive record, the remains of the Chinese V. chikushanensis are sporadic and the validity of the taxon has also been questioned. (2) Methods: the study of the specimens from the Early Pleistocene site of Bajiazui (1.8–1.2 Ma, Qingyang, Gansu) in comparison to an extensive sample of Vulpes spp. The Pliocene–Early Pleistocene is relevant for the delimitation of fossil foxes variability; (3) Results: morphologically and morphometrically, the specimens of Bajiazui fit with the specimens of V. chikushanensis from other Chinese localities of the Early Pleistocene, e.g., Longdan (Gansu) and Huiyu (Fangshang), highlighting some difference with the latest Early Pleistocene forms of Jigushan fox; (4) Conclusions: the revision of the Asian fossil record of Vulpes is crucial in our attempt to understand and reconstruct the evolution of carnivoran guild during the late Early Pleistocene (1.8–0.8 Ma). The fox remains from Bajiazui, although fragmentary, add a valuable piece to our knowledge of V. chikushanensis, a species possibly strongly related to the extant Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768).

Early Pleistocene

Guild

10.3390/quat6040057

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Ape quest in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (2014–2017): Fieldwork results and prospects for the future

The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin, TX (2018)

David M. Alba Salvador Moyà‐Solà Daniel DeMiguel Isaac Casanovas‐Vilar Miguel Garcés

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Cheetah Acinonyx pardinensis (Felidae, Carnivora) from the Early Pleistocene of Crimea (Taurida Cave)