Last population of cave lion (Panthera (Leo) spelaea) in the extreme south-west of Europe: Carigüela cave (Southern Iberian Peninsula)

The revision of the fauna of Carigüela (Píñar, Granada) has yielded the remains of a cave lion hitherto unknown at this site. The comparative morphometric study of the distal humerus fragment has led to its attribution to Panthera spelaea Goldfuss. From two samples of the bone and using the U/Th tec...

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Autores: Riquelme Cantal, José Antonio, Garrido Anguita, Juan Manuel, Delgado Huertas, Antonio, Castaños Ugarte, Perdo María, Jiménez Barredo, Fernando, Hasozbek, Altug, Simón Vallejo, María Dolores, Ávila Ramírez, Rocío, Rivas Carmona, María del Mar, Cortés Sánchez, Miguel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/172940
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/172940
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104584
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cave lion
Late Middle Pleistocene
U/Th dating
Southern Iberian
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Sumario:The revision of the fauna of Carigüela (Píñar, Granada) has yielded the remains of a cave lion hitherto unknown at this site. The comparative morphometric study of the distal humerus fragment has led to its attribution to Panthera spelaea Goldfuss. From two samples of the bone and using the U/Th technique, an absolute dating of 145–148 ka (MIS 6) has been stablished. The geographical location of the site makes the cave lion of Carigüela, together with that of Solana del Zamborino, the two most southerly records of this species in Europe. In the case of the former, it is the most recent reference of this species for southern Iberia.

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