The Punta Lucero Quarry site (Zierbena, Bizkaia): a window into the Middle Pleistocene in the Northern Iberian Peninsula

Gómez‐Olivencia, Asier; Sala, Nohemi; Arceredillo, Diego; Garcı́a, Nuria; Martínez-Pillado, Virginia; Garaizar, Joseba Ríos; Gárate, Diego; Solar, G.; Líbano, Iñaki

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.001

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“…On the basis of the faunal composition, the age of this site is considered to be younger than Atapuerca TD8 and older than Atapuerca TD10‐3 (Gómez‐Olivencia et al . ), suggesting a likely chronology of c . 0.6–0.4 Ma; (ii) Santa Isabel de Ranero (Vizcaya) yielded a significant assemblage of Ursus deningeri remains that, based on aspartic acid racemization dating, is considered coeval with Atapuerca SH (Torres et al .…”

Section: Middle Pleistocene Record From Nw Iberiamentioning

confidence: 94%

“…The fossil assemblage from Punta Lucero, corresponding to the same time interval, also provided a similar faunal association, including a late occurrence of Homotherium (Gómez‐Olivencia et al . ). Faunas from Arago (Ensembles I and III) yielded analogous taxa including S. hemitoechus and a large equid (Moigne et al .…”

Section: The Faunal Associations: Comparative Revision Within a Westementioning

confidence: 97%

“…(Gómez‐Olivencia et al . ). On the basis of the faunal composition, the age of this site is considered to be younger than Atapuerca TD8 and older than Atapuerca TD10‐3 (Gómez‐Olivencia et al .…”

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confidence: 97%

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Middle Pleistocene large‐mammal faunas from North Iberia: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications

Álvarez-Lao

2015

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The rich Quaternary fossil record from the Cantabrian region (NW Iberia) is virtually restricted to the Late Pleistocene, with Middle Pleistocene findings very rare. This work presents the study of two Middle Pleistocene palaeontological sites in the Cantabrian region: Llantrales quarry and Mestas de Con mine, both discovered and first described in the 1950s but never studied in detail thereafter. The material was here re‐analysed and re‐evaluated. Taxonomic attributions have been changed in most cases and, consequently, chronological assignments of the fossils have also been changed. This first detailed study of the assemblage from Llantrales quarry revealed the occurrence of the large‐sized deer Praemegaceros solilhacus, which has never been reported previously in North Iberia. Cervus cf. elaphus and Stephanorhinus cf. hundsheimensis were also identified. The age of these fossils was originally regarded as Pontian (late Miocene), but new palaeontological results indicate a much younger age, most likely from around 0.8 to 0.5 Ma. A taxonomic re‐evaluation of the fossils from Mestas de Con provided different results with respect to the 1950s works. The faunal association is composed of a large‐sized deer (probably corresponding to Praemegaceros), Cervus elaphus, Capreolus cf. capreolus, Bison sp. (small sized), Equus sp. (large sized), Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, Ursus sp. and Homotherim latidens. This faunal association was evaluated within a western European context and proves to be highly analogous to other contemporary assemblages there. The chronology was initially regarded as late Villafranchian (in a broader sense). New results, documenting the co‐occurrence of Stephanorhinus hemitoechus and Homotherium latidens, indicate a more precise and younger age, most likely between 0.6 and 0.4 Ma. These two fossil assemblages provide new and relevant information on the Middle Pleistocene faunas from a geographical region where this information, compared with other western European areas, is rare and poorly known.

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Section: The Faunal Associations: Comparative Revision Within a Westementioning

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Middle Pleistocene large‐mammal faunas from North Iberia: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications

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2015

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“…14; Table 3). I. Libano found this site in 1987 during the quarrying works conducted in the building of the outer part of the port of Bilbao, drastically altering the NE fl ank of the Punta Lucero Mountain (Gómez-Olivencia et al, 2015). Part of the macro-mammal remains, including ungulates and carnivores, were preliminarily published by Castaños (1988).…”

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The most representative vertebrate fossil record and palaeontological heritage from the western Pyrenees

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Astibia

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Spanish J. Palaeontol.

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“…Bos primigenius, Bison sp., Stephanorhinus sp.) and four carnivore (H. latidens, Panthera gombaszoegensis, Vulpes sp., and Canis mosbachensis) taxa (Gómez-Olivencia et al, 2015). Additionally, a combined isotopic analysis and trophic modeling has provided important paleoecological information: resource partitioning, with bison and aurochs consuming vegetation from more open spaces when compared to red deer, evidence of high competition among the carnivore guild, with overlap between the two large cats, which probably did not compete with the wolf C. mosbachensis (Domingo et al, 2017).…”

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The Koskobilo (Olazti, Navarre, Northern Iberian Peninsula) paleontological collection: New insights for the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Western Pyrenees

Gómez‐Olivencia

Arlegi

Arceredillo

et al. 2020

Quaternary International

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The destroyed site(s) of Koskobilo (Olazti, Navarre, Northern Iberian Peninsula) have yielded unique archaeopaleontological evidence in the Western Pyrenees region. The quarry uncovered a karstic site with faunal remains in 1940, and fossils were recovered both in situ and from the quarry dump. Ten years later, while the quarry was still working, a new visit to the dump yielded a large lithic assemblage and additional fossil remains with a different taphonomic pattern, which has been interpreted as the remains coming from a different site or zone within the same karst system. Here we re-study the paleontological evidence and provide new dating on a speleothem covering a Stephanorhinus hemitoechus tooth, which has yielded a minimum date of c. 220 ka for part of the assemblage. In total, the fossil assemblage comprises 38 mammal and six avian taxa and three fish remains. The faunal evidence indicates that in 1940 a mix of taxa from both the Middle and Upper Pleistocene were recovered, and it is difficult to assign most of them to a concrete period. However, based on biochronological criteria some of the identified taxa (e.g., Ursus thibetanus, Ursus cf. deningeri, Cuon cf. priscus, Macaca sylvanus, cf. Megaceroides) could be roughly contemporaneous with the dated rhino tooth, which would provide a new window to the Middle Pleistocene of the region, with deposits from MIS 7d and/or older. Despite the

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The Punta Lucero Quarry site (Zierbena, Bizkaia): a window into the Middle Pleistocene in the Northern Iberian Peninsula

Cited by 14 publications

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Middle Pleistocene large‐mammal faunas from North Iberia: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications

Middle Pleistocene large‐mammal faunas from North Iberia: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications

The most representative vertebrate fossil record and palaeontological heritage from the western Pyrenees

The Koskobilo (Olazti, Navarre, Northern Iberian Peninsula) paleontological collection: New insights for the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Western Pyrenees

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