%0 Journal Article
%A Agustí, Jordi
%A Santos Cubedo, Andrés
%A Furió Bruno, Marc
%A De Marfà Taillefer, Roger Joan
%A Blain, Hugues Alexandre
%A Oms Llobet, Oriol
%A Sevilla García, María Paloma
%T The late Neogene-early Quaternary small vertebrate succession from theAlmenara-Casablanca karst complex (Castellón, Eastern Spain): Chronologicand paleoclimatic context
%D 2011
%@ 1040-6182
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42055
%X Although discontinuous because of their karst nature, the Almenara-Casablanca complex records a verycomplete small vertebrate succession (amphibians, squamates, insectivores, bats, rodents and lagomorphs),characterized by the richness of their sites, a richness which cannot be expected in sites offluvio-lacustrine origin. This late Neogene-early Quaternary succession includes the sites of Almenara-Casablanca M (Miocene-Pliocene boundary), Almenara-Casablanca 4 (late Pliocene), Almenara-Casablanca1 (earliest Pleistocene) and Almenara-Casablanca 3 (late early Pleistocene). In this way, theAlmenara-Casablanca succession complements the data from other well know terrestrial Pliocene-Pleistocene sequences in the Iberian Peninsula, most notably that of the Guadix-Baza Basin. Thecomplementation between the almost continuous Pliocene-Pleistocene sequence of the Guadix-BazaBasin and the discontinuous but very rich succession from the Almenara-Casablanca complex enablesaccurate dating of some of the faunal events that punctuate the Pliocene-early Pleistocene time interval.Furthermore, the assemblages from the Almenara-Casablanca complex contain the evidence of theearliest occurrences of several taxa as well as the persistence of other that had already disappeared fromother European regions. Therefore, it provides new evidence for the particular role which the IberianPeninsula played during the late Neogene and early Quaternary, acting at certain moments as a bridge forthe entry of African taxa or, alternatively, as a refuge for other European taxa. This paper provides anupdated review of the small vertebrate succession from this complex.
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