Els invertebrats terrestres fòssils als jaciments d'origen càrstic de les illes Balears
[eng] A list of the invertebrate fossils found in karstic deposits in the Balearic Islands is presented in this paper. The knowledge we have about each island is different, and few data are available for Formentera and none for Cabrera. The fossil record is very incomplete and prac...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de las Islas Baleares |
| Repositorio: | Biblioteca Digital de les Illes Balears |
| OAI Identifier: | endins:Endins_2011v35p283 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/oai-site/collect/endins/index/assoc/Endins_2/011v35p2/83.dir/Endins_2011v35p283.pdf http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/library/collection/endins/document/Endins_2011v35p283 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Invertebrates, Fossil Spain Balearic Islands Biology |
| Sumario: | [eng] A list of the invertebrate fossils found in karstic deposits in the Balearic Islands is presented in this paper. The knowledge we have about each island is different, and few data are available for Formentera and none for Cabrera. The fossil record is very incomplete and practically most taxa cited are from a group with calcareous exoskeleton, such as molluscs. The remaining taxa of other groups is very poor and anecdotal, but are cited in the Balearic Islands for the first time the presence of traces of a mineralised honeycomb (probably Apis mellifera), remains of an elytron belonging to an endemic coprophagic beetle (Thorectes balearicus) and also concretioned remains of Diplopoda. In Mallorca there are many sites that have supplied vertebrates compared to those with invertebrates. In Menorca the situation is different from Mallorca; there are more karstic sites, found on the surface, containing fossil fauna and both vertebrates and invertebrates have been studied. In Ibiza, despite having few localities, data on the invertebrate fossils are available from karstic sites as well as non karstic ones. Information regarding those karst sites where invertebrates are present is quite important, but only from a few caves (Cova de ca na Reia, Cova d’en Jaume Orat and Es Pouàs). This paper attempts to give an overview on the state of their knowledge, providing a list of sites where the presence of invertebrate fossils is recorded together with the taxa found in them; in addition some unpublished data are also supplied. |
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