Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)

More than ten years of paleontological fieldwork during the enlargement of the Can Mata Landfill (Abocador de Can Mata [ACM]), in els Hostalets de Pierola (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) led to the recovery of >60,000 Miocene vertebrate remains. The huge sampling effort (due to conti...

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Autores: Alba, David M., Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac, Garcés Crespo, Miguel, Robles, Josep Maria
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Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Paleontologia
Hostalets de Pierola (Catalunya)
Primats fòssils
Paleomagnetisme
Magnetoestratigrafia
Paleontology
Hostalets de Pierola (Catalonia)
Primates, Fossil
Paleomagnetism
Magnetostratigraphy
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spelling Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)Alba, David M.Casanovas i Vilar, IsaacGarcés Crespo, MiguelRobles, Josep MariaPaleontologiaHostalets de Pierola (Catalunya)Primats fòssilsPaleomagnetismeMagnetoestratigrafiaPaleontologyHostalets de Pierola (Catalonia)Primates, FossilPaleomagnetismMagnetostratigraphyMore than ten years of paleontological fieldwork during the enlargement of the Can Mata Landfill (Abocador de Can Mata [ACM]), in els Hostalets de Pierola (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) led to the recovery of >60,000 Miocene vertebrate remains. The huge sampling effort (due to continuous surveillance of heavy machinery digging activity, coupled with manual excavation and screen-washing of sediments) enabled generally rare faunal elements such as pliopithecoid and hominoid primates to be found. Thanks to detailed litho-, bio- and magnetostratigraphic controls, accurate dating is possible for all the recovered primate remains from 19 of the 235 localities defined along the 234 m-thick composite stratigraphic sequence of the ACM. Here we report updated estimated (interpolated) ages for these paleontological localities and review the timing of the primate succession in this area. Our results indicate that the whole ACM sequence is late Aragonian in age (MN6 and MN7+8) and includes seven magnetozones that are correlated to subchrons C5Ar.1r to C5r.2r (ca. 12.6 to 11.4 Ma). Great apes (dryopithecines) are first recorded at 12.4-12.3 Ma, but most of the finds (Anoiapithecus, Pierolapithecus and Dryopithecus) cluster between 12.0 and 11.9 Ma, followed by some indeterminate dryopithecine remains between 11.7 and 11.6 Ma. Pliopithecoids first appear at 12.1 Ma, being subsequently represented by Pliopithecus between 11.9 and 11.7 Ma. The small-bodied hominoid Pliobates is the youngest ACM primate, with an estimated age of 11.6 Ma. Although these primates probably overlapped in time, their co-occurrence is recorded only twice, at 11.9 Ma (a dryopithecine with Pliopithecus) and at 11.6 Ma (a dryopithecine with Pliobates). The rare co-occurrence between great apes and small-bodied catarrhines might be attributable to sampling biases and/or to presumed diverging ecological preferences of these groups. In the future, more detailed analyses of the fauna recovered from the long and densely-sampled ACM sequence will hopefully throw new light on this long-standing, unresolved question.Elsevier B.V.2016201820172016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion10 p.application/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/104582Articles publicats en revistes (Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.012Journal of Human Evolution, 2017, vol. 102, p. 12-20https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.012cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier B.V., 2017http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/1045822026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
title Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
spellingShingle Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
Alba, David M.
Paleontologia
Hostalets de Pierola (Catalunya)
Primats fòssils
Paleomagnetisme
Magnetoestratigrafia
Paleontology
Hostalets de Pierola (Catalonia)
Primates, Fossil
Paleomagnetism
Magnetostratigraphy
title_short Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
title_full Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
title_fullStr Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
title_full_unstemmed Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
title_sort Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alba, David M.
Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac
Garcés Crespo, Miguel
Robles, Josep Maria
author Alba, David M.
author_facet Alba, David M.
Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac
Garcés Crespo, Miguel
Robles, Josep Maria
author_role author
author2 Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac
Garcés Crespo, Miguel
Robles, Josep Maria
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Paleontologia
Hostalets de Pierola (Catalunya)
Primats fòssils
Paleomagnetisme
Magnetoestratigrafia
Paleontology
Hostalets de Pierola (Catalonia)
Primates, Fossil
Paleomagnetism
Magnetostratigraphy
topic Paleontologia
Hostalets de Pierola (Catalunya)
Primats fòssils
Paleomagnetisme
Magnetoestratigrafia
Paleontology
Hostalets de Pierola (Catalonia)
Primates, Fossil
Paleomagnetism
Magnetostratigraphy
description More than ten years of paleontological fieldwork during the enlargement of the Can Mata Landfill (Abocador de Can Mata [ACM]), in els Hostalets de Pierola (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) led to the recovery of >60,000 Miocene vertebrate remains. The huge sampling effort (due to continuous surveillance of heavy machinery digging activity, coupled with manual excavation and screen-washing of sediments) enabled generally rare faunal elements such as pliopithecoid and hominoid primates to be found. Thanks to detailed litho-, bio- and magnetostratigraphic controls, accurate dating is possible for all the recovered primate remains from 19 of the 235 localities defined along the 234 m-thick composite stratigraphic sequence of the ACM. Here we report updated estimated (interpolated) ages for these paleontological localities and review the timing of the primate succession in this area. Our results indicate that the whole ACM sequence is late Aragonian in age (MN6 and MN7+8) and includes seven magnetozones that are correlated to subchrons C5Ar.1r to C5r.2r (ca. 12.6 to 11.4 Ma). Great apes (dryopithecines) are first recorded at 12.4-12.3 Ma, but most of the finds (Anoiapithecus, Pierolapithecus and Dryopithecus) cluster between 12.0 and 11.9 Ma, followed by some indeterminate dryopithecine remains between 11.7 and 11.6 Ma. Pliopithecoids first appear at 12.1 Ma, being subsequently represented by Pliopithecus between 11.9 and 11.7 Ma. The small-bodied hominoid Pliobates is the youngest ACM primate, with an estimated age of 11.6 Ma. Although these primates probably overlapped in time, their co-occurrence is recorded only twice, at 11.9 Ma (a dryopithecine with Pliopithecus) and at 11.6 Ma (a dryopithecine with Pliobates). The rare co-occurrence between great apes and small-bodied catarrhines might be attributable to sampling biases and/or to presumed diverging ecological preferences of these groups. In the future, more detailed analyses of the fauna recovered from the long and densely-sampled ACM sequence will hopefully throw new light on this long-standing, unresolved question.
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dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.012
Journal of Human Evolution, 2017, vol. 102, p. 12-20
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.012
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