Coprolites in natural traps: direct evidence of bone-eating carnivorans from the Late Miocene Batallones-3 site, Madrid, Spain

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dc.contributor.authorAbella, Juan
dc.contributor.authorMartín Perea, David Manuel
dc.contributor.authorValenciano, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorHontecillas Tamayo, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorMontoya, Plini
dc.contributor.authorMorales, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-17T09:16:28Z
dc.date.available2023-06-17T09:16:28Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractWe describe two carnivoran coprolites found in the pseudokarst natural carnivore trap of Batallones-3, from the Late Miocene of Spain. The larger one, comprising multiple indistinguishable fragments of broken and corroded bones, indicates that the producer of the dropping might have been highly capable of crushing the softer parts of large bones. On the other hand, the smaller one shows several relatively larger and more complete bone fragments, thus exhibiting a greater capacity to break and swallow large portions of bone. The external morphology of the large coprolite is similar to that of extant bears, whereas the smaller one more closely resembles that of the living insectivorous hyaenid Proteles in morphology, on the one hand, and that of the viverrid Genetta in size, on the other hand. We hypothesize that the amphicyonid Magerycion anceps was the producer of the large coprolite and the jackal-sized basal hyaenid Protictitherium crassum excreted the smaller one. Thus, we present the first direct evidence of a bone durophagous diet in the carnivorans of Batallones.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Geológicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)/FEDER
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad Complutense de Madrid/Banco de Santander
dc.description.sponsorshipConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad Complutense de Madrid/Comunidad de Madrid
dc.description.sponsorshipGobierno de Aragón
dc.description.sponsorshipGeneralitat de Catalunya
dc.description.statuspub
dc.eprint.idhttps://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/68369
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/let.12438
dc.identifier.issn0024-1164
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://doi.org/10.1111/let.12438
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8516
dc.journal.titleLethaia
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.projectID(CGL 2015-68333-P; CGL2016-76431-P; PGC2018-094122-B-100)
dc.relation.projectIDBSCH-UCM910607
dc.relation.projectIDCSIC 64 1538
dc.relation.projectIDCAM-UCM 910607
dc.relation.projectIDE33_20R
dc.relation.projectID2017 BP 00223
dc.relation.projectIDFJC2018-036669-I
dc.relation.projectIDBES-2016-079460
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dc.subject.cdu56.016.4(460.27)
dc.subject.keywordCarnivora
dc.subject.keywordfossil faeces
dc.subject.keywordIberian Peninsula
dc.subject.keywordLate Miocene
dc.subject.keywordpseudokarst
dc.subject.ucmPaleontología
dc.subject.unesco2416 Paleontología
dc.titleCoprolites in natural traps: direct evidence of bone-eating carnivorans from the Late Miocene Batallones-3 site, Madrid, Spain
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