Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-g7gxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-16T06:40:28.415Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Carnivora from the late Early Pleistocene of Cal Guardiola (Terrassa, Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Joan Madurell-Malapeira ,
David M. Alba  and
Salvador Moyà-Solà
Joan Madurell-Malapeira
Affiliation:
Institut Català de Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICP, Campus de la UAB s/n, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain,
David M. Alba
Affiliation:
Institut Català de Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICP, Campus de la UAB s/n, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, 50121 Florence, Italy
Salvador Moyà-Solà
Affiliation:
ICREA at Unitat d'Antropologia Biològica (Dept. BABVE) and Institut Català de Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICP, Campus de la UAB s/n, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain,
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The paleontological site of Cal Guardiola (UTM 31T DG1702), on the western bank of the Torrent de Vallparadís (Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain), was discovered in early 1997 during the construction of a socio-sanitary building next to the Mútua de Terrassa. A report on the geology and stratigraphy of Cal Guardiola was published by Berástegui et al. (2000), including a preliminary report on the fauna. This preliminary study suggested an estimated age for Cal Guardiola of ca. 1.0 Ma (Berástegui et al., 2000). Unpublished paleomagnetic analyses, carried out by Miguel Garcés, indicate a reverse magnetization for the sampled sediments, which can be correlated to below the Brunhes-Matuyama geomagnetic boundary (pers. com. of M. Garcés in Postigo Mijarra et al., 2007), thus being older than 0.8 Ma. This dating roughly corresponds to the later part of the Epivillafranchian biochron (1.2 to 0.9 Ma), which in Europe is best represented by the faunal assemblages from Untermassfeld in Germany, Le Vallonnet in France, and Colle Curti and Slivia in Italy (Palombo et al., 2008 and references therein). The faunal assemblage from Cal Guardiola represents one of the latest Epivillafranchian faunas from Europe and thus deserves particular attention for unraveling the chronology of the dispersal events that took place during the Epivillafranchian-Galerian turnover. However, thus far only the primate remains from Cal Guardiola have been published (Alba et al., 2008), while the rest of the fauna remains unpublished. Here we describe the carnivore remains from Cal Guardiola, which record one of the latest occurrences of the hyenid Pachycrocuta in Europe and further attests the coexistence of two distinct ursid lineages by the latest Early Pleistocene in Europe.

Type
Paleontological Notes
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 83 , Issue 6 , November 2009 , pp. 969 - 974
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Alba, D. M., Moyà-Solà, S., Madurell, J., and Aurell, J. 2008. Dentognathic remains of Macaca (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the late Early Pleistocene of Terrassa (Catalonia, Spain). Journal of Human Evolution, 55:1160–1163.Google Scholar
Aymard, A. 1846. Communication sur le gisement de Sainzelles. Annales de la Société d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts du Puy, 12:153–155.Google Scholar
Berástegui, X., Casanovas, J., and Moyà-Solà, S. 2000. El jaciment paleontològic de Cal Guardiola. Una finestra oberta al plistocè inferior de Catalunya. Contextualització geològica. Tribuna d'Arqueologia, 1997–1998:255–277.Google Scholar
Bonifay, M. F. 1971. Carnivores quaternaires du sud est de la France. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle, Série C, 21:1–358.Google Scholar
Bowditch, T. E. 1821. An analysis of the natural classifications of Mammalia for the use of students and travelers. J. Smith, Paris, 115 p.Google Scholar
Fabrini, E. 1890. I Machairodus (Meganthereon) del Val d'Arno superiore. Bollettino Comitato Geologico d'Italia, 21:121–144, 161–177.Google Scholar
Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1817. Adversaria zoologica. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 5:368–428.Google Scholar
Frisch, J. L. 1775. Das Natur-System der vierfüssender Thiere, nicht nur mit bestimmenden Benennungen, sondern beygesetzten unterscheidenden Kennzeichen angezeigt werden, zum Nutzen der erwachsenen Schuljugend. Glogau, 30 p.Google Scholar
Galobart, A., Pons-Moyà, J., Antòn, M., and Maroto, J. 2003. Descripción del material de Homotherium latidens (Owen) de los yacimientos del Pleistoceno inferior de Incarcal (Girona, NE de la Península Ibérica). Paleontologia i Evolució, 34:99–143.Google Scholar
García, N. 2003. Osos y otros carnívoros de la sierra de Atapuerca. Fundación oso de Asturias, Oviedo, 575 p.Google Scholar
García, N. and Arsuaga, J. L. 2001. Ursus dolinensis: a new species of Early Pleistocene ursid from Trinchera Dohna, Atapuerca (Spain). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 332:717–725.Google Scholar
Gray, E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review, 15:296–310.Google Scholar
Gray, E. 1825. An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe. Annals of Philosophy, 10:337–344.Google Scholar
Kormos, T. H. 1932. Neue Wühlmäuse aus dem Oberpliocän von Püspökfürdö. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, 69B:323–346.Google Scholar
Kretzoi, M. 1938. Die Raubtiere von Gombaszög nebst einer Übersicht der Gesamtfauna. Annales Musem Nationale Hungaricum, 31:89–157.Google Scholar
Kurtén, B. 1973. Pleistocene Jaguars in North America. Commentationes Biologicae, 62:1–23.Google Scholar
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. I: Regnum animale. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.Google Scholar
Moullé, P. E. 1992. Les grands mammifères du Pléistocène inférieur de la grotte du Vallonnet (Roquebrunne-Cap Martín-Alpes Maritimes). Etude paléontologique des Carnivores, Equidé, Suidé et Bovidés. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 365 p.Google Scholar
Musil, R. 2001. Die Ursiden-Resten aus dem Unterplesitozän von Untermassfeld, p. 557–587. In Kahlke, R. D. (ed.), Das Plesitozän von Untermassfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen), Part 2, Monographien des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseums, Mainz, 40.Google Scholar
Oken, L. 1816. Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Thiel 3. Zoologie. C. H. Reclam, Leipzig, 2:1–1270.Google Scholar
Owen, R. 1846. A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds. John Van Voorst, London, 560 p.Google Scholar
Palombo, M. R., Sardella, R., and Novelli, M. 2008. Carnivora dispersal in Western Mediterraenan during the last 2.6 Ma. Quaternary International, 179:72–78.Google Scholar
Postigo Mijarra, J. M., Burjachs, F., Gómez-Manzaneque, F., and Morla, C. 2007. A palaeoecological interpretation of the lower-middle Pleistocene Cal Guardiola site (Terrassa, Barcelona, NE Spain) from the comparative study of wood and pollen samples. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 146:247–264.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reichenau, W. von. 1904. Über eine neue fossile Bären-Art Ursus deningeri MIHI aus den fluviatilen Sanden von Mosbach. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins ftir Naturkunde, 57:1–11.Google Scholar
Soergel, W. 1925. Die Säugetierfauna des altdiluvialen Tonlagers von Jockgrim in der Pfalz. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft A, 77:405–438.Google Scholar
Sotnikova, M. V. 2001. The fossil Canidae from the Pleistocene deposits of Untermassfeld near Meiningen, p. 607–632. In Kahlke, R. D. (ed.), Das Plesitozän von Untermassfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen), Part 2, Monographien des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseums, Mainz, 40.Google Scholar
Torres, T. 1984. Úrsidos del Pleistoceno-Holoceno de la Península Ibérica. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Escuela de Ingenieros de Minas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 653 p.Google Scholar