The shrews (Soricidae, Mammalia) of the Early and Middle Pleistocene of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Spain): reassessing their paleontological record in the Iberian Peninsula

Moya-Costa, Raquel; Bescós, Glòria Cuenca; Rofes, Juan

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108093

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“…On the other hand, shrew communities are also suitable as a rich source for the analysis of biotic responses, including changes in morphometric traits (Reumer, 1984;van Dam, 2004;Furió et al, 2007Furió et al, , 2018Furió and Agustí, 2017). Although shrews have special value, their morphometric study usually reaches either a single-species analysis (Panasenko and Kholin, 2011;Polly, 2005Polly, , 2007Voyta et al, 2013;Cornette et al, 2015a;Rofes et al, 2018) or an analysis of univariate/bivariate statistics (Fadeeva, 2016;Zazhigin and Voyta, 2018;Moya-Costa et al 2023). Currently, there are not many comprehensive studies on the morphometric variety of shrews on a multispecies scale (Butler et al, 1989;Zaitsev, 1998;Dokuchaev et al, 1999Dokuchaev et al, , 2010Zazhigin and Voyta, 2022), especially used powerful geometric morphometric approaches based on two-and three-dimensional data sets (Rychlik et al, 2006;Cornette et al, 2015aCornette et al, , 2015b, various methods of interpretation (e.g., multivariate shape space approach; Polly and Wójcik, 2019) and molecular/ morphological data sets combining , although, other mammalian groups are being developed very actively Viacava et al, 2023;and many others).…”

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Morphospace dynamics and intraspecies variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis according to recent and fossil data

Voyta,

Izvarin,

Shemyakina

et al. 2023

Palaeontol Electron

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Several patterns were revealed in a temporal study on morphological variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis (Soricidae, Mammalia). We examined samples from 18 modern and three fossil Early-Late Holocene Uralian localities. We analyzed shape variation of the first lower molar and hemimandible using two-dimensional geometrical landmarks; size differences were estimated by means of three linear measures. A separate purpose was estimation of the measurement error that arose during the data acquisition. We found that the modern samples of both species share underestimated similarity in both size and shape of morphological structures. Regression analysis revealed different phenotypic traits of the mandibular proportion in the large and small shrews regardless of species attribution. A size decrease of S. araneus and conversely a size increase of S. tundrensis both drive the mandibular shape toward phenotypic convergence. This pattern, however, is violated in the fossil samples, where the largest S. tundrensis from a Late Holocene Sim III locality (South Ural) showed a well-distinguishable mandibular shape located in a separate part of the morphospace. In this work, we found that the m1 shape has only weak resolving power as compared to the mandibular or especially skull shape. Nonetheless, even the moderate resolving power of the mandibular shape allowed us to uncover phenotypic changes during the Holocene that have not been noticed by previous researchers at Uralian late Quaternary localities.

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Morphospace dynamics and intraspecies variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis according to recent and fossil data

Voyta,

Izvarin,

Shemyakina

et al. 2023

Palaeontol Electron

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Palaeoclimatic analysis of Quaternary terrestrial small mammal assemblages from the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

Domínguez-García,

López-García,

Núñez-Lahuerta

et al. 2024

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Holocene biogeography of the southwestern European white‐toothed shrew (Crocidura iculisma, Eulipotyphla) through its fossil record

Domínguez‐García,

Álvarez‐Vena,

Laplana

et al. 2024

Mammal Review

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Crocidura iculisma (=C. suaveolens) is a shrew (Soricidae, Eulipotyphla) showing a fragmented distribution limited to the Iberian Peninsula, southern and western France and northwestern Italy. Although it has been in the Iberian Peninsula since the Middle Pleistocene, its biogeographical history remains poorly known. Here, we provide new data on Crocidura iculisma from the Castillejo del Bonete site (southern Spain) dated as 3.8–3.6 cal kyr BP. At the same time, we analyse changes in its geographic distribution based on its palaeontological record. We have reviewed thoroughly the Holocene record of Crocidura iculisma in southwestern Europe, considering independently the three time intervals according to the stages defined for this geological time series (Greenlandian, Northgrippian and Meghalayan). Whenever found together in fossil sites, the relative abundance of the two sympatric shrews of the genus Crocidura (Crocidura russula and Crocidura iculisma) was analysed. The data obtained concerning past distribution range and relative abundance were compared with the current status of the species in Iberia to interpret changes through time. The distribution range of the southwestern European white‐toothed shrew in the Iberian Peninsula has notably reduced over time until today. The occurrence at Castillejo del Bonete and other palaeontological records located beyond its current distribution range show that it was distributed in several areas of the eastern part and southern interior of Iberia, at least until the second half of the Meghalayan. Relative abundance patterns observed in the fossil assemblages suggest that competitive exclusion by Crocidura russula and climatic changes played a crucial role in driving the extirpation of Crocidura iculisma from a substantial portion of the Iberian Peninsula.

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The shrews (Soricidae, Mammalia) of the Early and Middle Pleistocene of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Spain): reassessing their paleontological record in the Iberian Peninsula

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Morphospace dynamics and intraspecies variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis according to recent and fossil data

Morphospace dynamics and intraspecies variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis according to recent and fossil data

Palaeoclimatic analysis of Quaternary terrestrial small mammal assemblages from the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

Holocene biogeography of the southwestern European white‐toothed shrew (Crocidura iculisma, Eulipotyphla) through its fossil record

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