Evidence for an African-Iberian mammal dispersal during the pre-evaporitic Messinian

Gibert, Luís; Scott, G. R.; Montoya, Plinio; Ruiz-Sánchez, Francisco J.; Morales, Jorge; Luque, Luís; Abellá, Juan; Lería, María

doi:10.1130/g34164.1

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“…This suggests, given the lack of macaques in slightly older late Miocene sites such as Venta del Moro in Spain, that macaques did not disperse from Africa into Eurasia until the latest Miocene, coinciding with the sea level drop associated with the MSC (Alba et al, 2014(Alba et al, , 2015. However, it is uncertain whether macaques dispersed through the Gibraltar area (Gibert et al, 2013) or otherwise using the Middle East route that was already available from pre-Messinian times and was most likely followed in the case of Mesopithecus (Gilbert et al, 2014;Alba et al, 2015).…”

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Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications

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Alba

D’Amico

et al. 2017

Palaeontologia Electronica

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Section: Vertebratesmentioning

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Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications

Colombero

Alba

D’Amico

et al. 2017

Palaeontologia Electronica

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“…1). Fossil Macaca specimens from the terminal Miocene of Spain and Italy have been suggested to provide evidence for the use of a route across the Mediterranean Basin or the Straits of Gibraltar via an ephemeral land bridge either immediately before-or perhaps associated with-the drop in Mediterranean sea levels during the Messinian (∼6.0-5.3 Ma) (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19). Paleontological evidence for an Arabian route has been lacking, but paleogeographic and paleoenvironmental work on circum-Arabia suggests that the region did not present a persistent ecological barrier to some amount of intercontinental exchange during the late Miocene (20).…”

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Early guenon from the late Miocene Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi, with implications for cercopithecoid biogeography and evolution

Gilbert

Bibi

Hill

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Significance The primate subfamily Cercopithecinae represents the most diverse and successful living Old World primate group, with a current distribution throughout Africa and Asia. However, how and when these monkeys dispersed out of Africa is not well understood. This paper is significant in its description of a ∼6.5–8.0 million-y-old fossil guenon from Arabia representing the earliest cercopithecine (and only guenon) yet known outside of Africa. Furthermore, this specimen extends the guenon fossil record by at least 2.3 million y and may represent the earliest known cercopithecine as well. Because Old World monkeys appear to have dispersed out of Africa sometime during the Late Miocene, the Arabian fossils also have implications for dispersal scenarios in Old World monkey biogeography and evolution.

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“…While the last members of the genus Indarctos (local biozone M2, Van Dam et al, 2001) are replaced by the Hemicyonidae genus Agriotherium that arrived at the Iberian Peninsula during the biozone M3 of the MN13 (recently dated at 6.23 Ma. ; Gibert et al, 2013), the last ailuropod bears begin a relatively quick decay in Western and Central Europe. During the last part of the MN13 there is a small vacuum in the Iberian Peninsula without Ursoidea (between the localities of Venta del Moro and Alcoy, both to the East of Spain).…”

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Paleodiversity of the Superfamily Ursoidea (Carnivora, Mammalia) in the Spanish Neogene, related to environmental changes

Abellá

Montoya

Morales

2014

Journal of Iberian Geology

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In the present study we analyse the diversity of the Superfamily Ursoidea during the Neogene of the Iberian Peninsula to further compare it with that of the Neogene of Western Europe to find the different associations of this group. The results indicate that both the diversity and the taxonomy amongst these two regions show important variations, thus letting their interpretation in terms of climatic differentiation. We might relate variations in the abundance of the Ursoidea to the environmental fluctuations taking place during the Miocene and Pliocene. Therefore, they could enable us to reach the assessment of these biogeographical distributions in order to deduce the preferential niches of each different group of Ursoidea.Keywords: Carnivora, Hemicyonidae, Ursidae, Iberian Peninsula, Miocene, Pliocene Resumen En este trabajo se analiza la diversidad de la Superfamilia Ursoidea durante el Neógeno de la Península Ibérica, comparándola con la de Europa Occidental de la misma época, con el objetivo de localizar las diferentes asociaciones de los miembros de este grupo. Los resultados indican que tanto la diversidad como la taxonomía varían considerablemente entre las dos regiones estudiadas pudiendo interpretarse en tér-minos de diferenciación climática. Estas variaciones en la abundancia de Ursoidea se pueden relacionar con las fluctuaciones ambientales que tuvieron lugar durante el Mioceno y el Plioceno. Por tanto, nos ayudarán a evaluar las causas de estas distribuciones biogeográficas y a encontrar los nichos preferentes de cada uno de los diferentes grupos de Ursoidea.

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Evidence for an African-Iberian mammal dispersal during the pre-evaporitic Messinian

Cited by 92 publications

References 27 publications

Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications

Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications

Early guenon from the late Miocene Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi, with implications for cercopithecoid biogeography and evolution

Paleodiversity of the Superfamily Ursoidea (Carnivora, Mammalia) in the Spanish Neogene, related to environmental changes

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