Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe

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 resumed in 2018 and continue to date. Here we provide updated results regarding the age, stratigraphy, biota and palaeoenvironment...

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Autores: Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac, Garcés Crespo, Miguel, Marcuello Pascual, Alejandro, Abella, Juan, Madurell Malapeira, Joan, Jovells i Vaquer, Sílvia, Cabrera, Lluís, Galindo, Jordi, Beamud Amorós, Elisabet, Ledo Fernández, Juanjo, Queralt i Capdevila, Pilar, Martí i Castells, Anna, Sanjuan i Girbau, Josep, Martín-Closas, Carles, Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Hernández Luján, Àngel, Villa, Andrea, DeMiguel, Daniel, Sánchez, Israel M., Robles, Josep Maria, Furió Bruno, Marc, Van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Sánchez-Marco, Antonio, Sanisidro Morant, Óscar, Valenciano, Alberto, García Paredes, Israel, Angelone, Chiara, Pons-Monjo, Guillem, Azanza, Beatriz, Delfino, Massimo, Bolet, Arnau, Grau-Camats, M., Vizcaíno-Varo, Víctor, Mormeneoa, David, Kimura, Yuri, Moyà Solà, Salvador, Alba, David M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2022
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
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/187740
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/187740
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Paleontologia
Vertebrats fòssils
Miocè
Subirats (Catalunya)
Paleontology
Fossil vertebrates
Miocene
Subirats (Catalonia)
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Sumario: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 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 ~15.9 Ma thanks to recent bio- and magnetostratigraphic data, thus coinciding with the onset of 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 74 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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