RT Journal Article
T1 Les Cases de la Valenciana, a new early Miocene small-mammal locality from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia, Spain)
A1 Jovells Vaqué, Sílvia
A1 García Paredes, Israel
A1 Furió, Marc
A1 Angelone, Chiara
A1 Hoek Ostende, Lars van den
A1 Berrocal Barberà, Mariona
A1 DeMiguel, Daniel
A1 Madurell Malapeira, Joan
A1 Casanovas Vilar, Isaac
AB The Valles-Penedes Basin (Catalonia, Spain) is classical area for the study of Miocene land mammal faunas. Nevertheless, the early Miocene part of the record has deserved little attention as compared to younger intervals. Most notably, the small mammals of this age have not been described in detail, consequently hampering the correlation of the Valles-Penedes record with other chronological schemes. In this work we describe the rich and diverse small mammal fauna from Les Cases de la Valenciana site (Gelida, Alt Penedès) which includes marsupials, eulipotyphlans, lagomorphs and rodents. On the basis of the presence of the cricetids Megacricetodon and Democricetodon this site is correlated with European Neogene zone MN4, yielding an age of 17–16 Ma. However, the rodent assemblage is comparable to that of chronologically close localities of the Calatayud-Montalbán Basin (Aragon, Spain), indicating that the same biochronological scheme can be applied to both areas. In this way, the coexistence of the eomyids Ligerimys ellipticus and Ligerimys florancei coupled with the presence of Megacricetodon primitivus indicates a correlation with local biozone Ca of the Calatayud-Montalban Basin, ranging from 16.3 to 16 Ma. Finally, the correlation of other early Miocene sites of the Valles-Penedes Basin is discussed and refined.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN Print ISSN: 0891-2963 ; Online ISSN: 1029-2381
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18476
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18476
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)
NO European Regional Development Fund
NO Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca of the Generalitat de Catalunya
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 abr 2025