The return to the Iberian Peninsula: first Quaternary record of Muscardinus and a palaeogeographical overview of the genus in Europe

García-Ibaibarriaga, Naroa; Arrizabalaga, Álvaro; Iriarte-Chiapusso, María-José; Rofes, Juan; Murelaga, Xabier

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.017

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“…The aims of the current study are to (i) determine the sedimentary processes that took place within the cave during the various climatic cycles; (ii) understand how these sedimentary processes responded to ongoing environmental changes; and (iii) assess whether post-depositional events affected the sedimentary sequence through time. The results from this study will contribute towards our current knowledge on general cave sedimentary processes, aid in paleoenvironmental reconstruction at the local and regional scale, and provide a geological context for the archaeological and paleontological remains from the Lezetxiki archaeological complex, which is one of the most important sites in the northern Iberian Peninsula (Castaños et al, 2011;Arrizabalaga and Rios-Garaizar, 2012;Rofes et al, 2012;Villaluenga et al, 2012;Álvarez-Alonso, 2014;Arrizabalaga et al, 2014;Gómez-Olivencia et al, 2014;Rios-Garaizar et al, 2015a;Garcia-Ibaibarriaga et al, 2015).…”

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Reconstructing the sedimentary history of Lezetxiki II cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula) using micromorphological analysis

Arriolabengoa

Iriarte

Aranburu

et al. 2018

Sedimentary Geology

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Micromorphological analysis is an invaluable research tool for reconstructing detailed depositional and post-depositional processes of cave infill sequences and for providing paleoenvironmental insight. In this work, we present the results of a micromorphological and mineralogical study of the sedimentary sequence at the Lezetxiki II cave (northern Iberian Peninsula). The cave forms part of the Lezetxiki archaeological complex which has yielded early Middle Palaeolithic tools and archaic human remains. We have identified three main clastic sedimentary processes as being significant at Lezetxiki II: 1) fluviokarst or runoff processes, which are characterised by yellow sandy illite-rich microfacies; 2) infiltration processes, which produce a massive red silty-clay vermiculite-rich microfacies; and 3) inwash processes, which generate a

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Reconstructing the sedimentary history of Lezetxiki II cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula) using micromorphological analysis

Arriolabengoa

Iriarte

Aranburu

et al. 2018

Sedimentary Geology

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“…Muscardinus avellanarius (Common dormouse)] have been rarely found in the Quaternary of the Iberian Peninsula (Rofes et al, 2012;Garcia-Ibaibarriaga et al, 2015;Guillén Castejón., 2015).…”

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Late Pleistocene Palaeoenvironmental Variations from Marine Isotope Stages 5 and 4: Small Mammals at Artazu VIII Site (Arrasate, Northern Iberian Peninsula)

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Sites corresponding to Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5) and MIS 4 like Artazu VIII, with a continental record but no hominin imprints or carnivores activities, are very scarce in the Iberian Peninsula. The Artazu VIII cave fill (Arrasate, northern Spain) was discovered in 2013 and is presented here for the first time, including detailed stratigraphic and sedimentological descriptions of the differentiated 12 levels, as well as an ordered chronology of most levels, covering at least 36,000 years. In addition, the small mammal assemblage yielded a total of 8,129 identifiable skeletal remains corresponding to 14 taxa. The conditions inferred from the ecological preferences of the small mammal associations have been correlated with four different stages and substages from MIS 5c to MIS 4 in which the woodland mass expanded and retreated, depending on the relative temperature and humidity in each period. Finally, considering the species variability and estimated palaeoenvironment, a comparison with the NGRIP δ 18 O curve and other sites with the same chronology has been performed, showing that Artazu VIII is one of the few deposits attributable to the Marine Isotopic Stages previously mentioned and the only one that correlates to the Greenland Interstadial 18 from the Iberian Peninsula.

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“…bursae se registra en la Península Ibérica desde el final del Pleistoceno Inferior, en los niveles inferiores de Gran Dolina (Gil, 1986(Gil, y 1996Sesé & Gil, 1987;Sesé, 1994;Sesé & Sevilla, 1996), y durante el Pleistoceno Medio y Pleistoceno Superior en numerosos yacimientos, excepto en la región Pirenaica (Arribas, 2004) y noreste peninsular (López-García, 2008). En la región Cantábrica no se habían encontrado restos de esta especie (Altuna, 1972;Sesé, 2005) hasta recientemente en los yacimientos del Pleistoceno Superior de Lezetxiki (Guipúzcoa) (Rofes et al, 2012;García-Ibaibarriaga et al, 2015) y Arlanpe (Vizcaya) (García-Ibaibarriaga et al, 2013). En todo caso, dados los escasos hallazgos hasta ahora, con pocos restos y solo en dos yacimientos de la Región Cantábrica, en la que sin embargo son tan numerosos los yacimientos del Pleistoceno Superior y Holoceno, parece que este cricétido, un inmigrante en la Península Ibérica procedente de Eurasia, no tuvo en dicha región una gran penetración más allá de la zona oriental próxima a Francia en la que se localizan dichos yacimientos, quizás porque en general no reunía las condiciones de clima y hábitats más favorables para su expansión.…”

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Los micromamíferos (Lagomorpha, Eulipotyphla y Rodentia) del yacimiento del Pleistoceno Medio de Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, España): Estudio sistemático y consideraciones paleoambientales

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La asociación de micromamíferos determinada en este trabajo es la siguiente: Lagomorpha: Oryctolagus cuniculus; Eulipotyphla: Crocidura cf. russula, cf. Sorex sp., Neomys sp., Soricidae indet. y Talpa sp.; y Rodentia: Eliomys quercinus, Apodemus cf. sylvaticus, Cricetulus (Allocricetus) bursae, Arvicola aff. sapidus, Microtus (Iberomys) brecciensis y Microtus (Terricola) duodecimcostatus. Es una asociación característica del Pleistoceno Medio. El estadio evolutivo de Cricetulus (A.) bursae, Arvicola aff. sapidus y Microtus (I.) brecciensis le aproximan a las poblaciones de dichas especies de algunos yacimientos de la Península Ibérica del Pleistoceno Medio avanzado, pero no final, lo que es acorde con las dataciones numéricas obtenidas en el yacimiento (243-337 ka) que le sitúan en el MIS 8 o 9. Los micromamíferos indican la predominancia de los espacios abiertos con abundante vegetación herbácea y arbustiva, en los que podría haber también alguna zona arbolada. El clima que indican es de tipo mediterráneo, similar al actual en la zona o quizás algo más benigno y más húmedo.

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The return to the Iberian Peninsula: first Quaternary record of Muscardinus and a palaeogeographical overview of the genus in Europe

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Reconstructing the sedimentary history of Lezetxiki II cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula) using micromorphological analysis

Reconstructing the sedimentary history of Lezetxiki II cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula) using micromorphological analysis

Late Pleistocene Palaeoenvironmental Variations from Marine Isotope Stages 5 and 4: Small Mammals at Artazu VIII Site (Arrasate, Northern Iberian Peninsula)

Los micromamíferos (Lagomorpha, Eulipotyphla y Rodentia) del yacimiento del Pleistoceno Medio de Cuesta de la Bajada (Teruel, España): Estudio sistemático y consideraciones paleoambientales

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