Zonal plant communities of the Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin (La Rinconada mine, eastern Spain) during the early Miocene

Mijarra, José María Postigo; Barrón, Eduardo

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“…From Spain, the macrofloras of La Rinconada (Ribesalbes, Castellón) and Mora de Rubielos (Teruel) have been described by Barrón and Postigo-Mijarra (2011), Posti goMijarra and Barrón (2013), and Barrón and Diéguez (2001). The Chattian/Aquitanian flora of Armissan (Aude, southern France) described by Saporta (1865) has never been revised.…”

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The early Miocene flora of Güvem (Central Anatolia, Turkey): a window into early Neogene vegetation and environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Güner²,

Kvaček³

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Acta Palaeobotanica

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ABSTRACT. The early Burdigalian (MN3) plant assemblage of the Güvem area (northwestern Central Anatolia) is preserved in lacustrine sediments of the Dereköy pyroclastics. Its age is well constrained by radiometric dates of basaltic rocks bracketing the pyroclastics, making the Güvem flora one of the extremely few precisely dated early Miocene floras in the Mediterranean region. The rich assemblage of impression fossils comprises ferns and fern allies (2 species), gymnosperms (12 spp.) and angiosperms (129 spp.). Ilex miodipyrena sp. nov. is described as a new fossil-species. The most diverse families in the assemblage are the Fagaceae with 12 taxa and the Fabaceae with 12 leaf morphotypes and one fruit taxon. Aquatic plants are represented by seven taxa, riparian (including palms) and swamp forest elements by >35 taxa, and lianas by three taxa (Smilax spp., Chaneya). The relatively large number of aquatic and riparian/swamp elements is congruent with the rich fish, amphibian and reptile record of the Güvem area. Another characteristic feature of the plant assemblage is the presence of various lobed leaves which show similarities with modern species of different families (e.g. Alangium, various Malvales). Trees and shrubs growing on well-drained soils and forming closed-canopy and open-canopy forests are the most diversified group (>70 taxa). In terms of number of specimens in the collection and based on field observations, by far the most abundant leaf fossils belong to evergreen oaks of Quercus drymeja and Q. mediterranea and to various types of foliage that cannot be assigned to a particular extant or extinct genus of Fagaceae. These sclerophyllous trees must have covered vast areas surrounding the wetlands that developed during the early Miocene in the Güvem Basin. Based on a recent reassessment of the ecology and taxonomic affinity of these trees, they are considered to reflect humid temperate climatic conditions but with a brief drier season during the winter months. These forests are more similar to the laurel forests of the southeastern United States and those stretching in a narrow belt south of the Himalayas to eastern central China. The large number of Fabaceae may indicate the presence of warm subtropical environments but this is difficult to assess, as they are known for having wide ecological ranges today and in the past. All in all, a larger part of the plant taxa point to forested vegetation. This is in agreement with previous palynological studies which detected only small amounts of herbaceous and grass pollen. Open patches of vegetation may have been restricted to river banks and to rocky areas in a volcanic landscape. The biogeographic patterns detected for the early Miocene of the Güvem assemblage are manifold; most taxa are widespread Northern Hemispheric elements. A substantial part of the species migrated from Asia into Europe during the (late) Paleogene and reached Anatolia during the early Miocene (Fagus, Paliurus, Chaneya, Ailanthus, Quercus kubinyii, Davallia haidingeri, Acer angustilo...

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The early Miocene flora of Güvem (Central Anatolia, Turkey): a window into early Neogene vegetation and environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

Denk¹,

Güner²,

Kvaček³

et al. 2017

Acta Palaeobotanica

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“…The estimated age for the Ribesalbes sequence was fi rst Oligocene (Hernández Sampelayo & Cincúnegui, 1926;Fernández Marrón & Álvarez Ramis, 1967), but later Fernández Marrón (1971 noted that the plant remains from La Rinconada better correspond to the early Miocene. New palaeobotanical and mammalian data support an early Miocene age for the fossiliferous levels in the basin (Ruiz-Sánchez et al, 2010;Postigo-Mijarra & Barrón, 2013). The mammalian fossils from the unit C have been placed on the biozone MN4 (Agustí et al, 1988;Crespo et al, 2019).…”

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“…In recent times, the exceptional preservation of salamander musculature from La Rinconada due to the action of microbial mats and the chemical conditions of burial was analysed by McNamara et al (2010). Later, several palaeoecological inferences based on the plant remains from this locality were published (Barrón & Postigo-Mijarra, 2011;Postigo-Mijarra & Barrón, 2013).…”

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Palaeoentomological study of the lacustrine oil-shales of the lower Miocene San Chils locality (Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin, Castellón province, Spain)

Álvarez-Parra

Peñalver

2020

Spanish J. Palaeontol.

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For the first time, the study of the fossil record present in laminated bituminous dolostones from the San Chils locality, lower Miocene in age (ca. 19 Ma), located at the Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin, is addressed. The identifi cation of 11 families and three genera belonging to six insect orders (Orthoptera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera) has been carried out. Furthermore, ephippia of cladoceran crustaceans, one bird feather, vertebrate coprolites and plant remains have been found. The San Chils palaeodiversity has been compared to that of La Rinconada, a similar outcrop in the same basin and depositional unit. Both localities correspond to lacustrine deposits and were mined during the past two centuries. This work has increased the palaeontological richness of the Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin with new fi ndings such as specimens of the subfamily Corixinae (Hemiptera: Corixidae), some ant workers (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a specimen assigned to the genus Exechia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), ephippia of Daphnia (Ctenodapnia) sp. (Branchiopoda: Cladocera), RESUMEN Este estudio aborda por primera vez el registro fósil presente en dolomías bituminosas laminadas/tableadas del yacimiento de San Chils (Cuenca de Ribesalbes-Alcora, Castellón) de edad Mioceno inferior (unos 19 millones de años). Se han identifi cado 11 familias y tres géneros pertenecientes a seis órdenes de insectos (Orthoptera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera y Diptera). Además, se han hallado efi pios de crustáceos cladóceros, una pluma de ave, coprolitos de vertebrados y restos paleobotánicos. Dicha paleodiversidad se ha comparado con la de La Rinconada, un yacimiento de la misma cuenca y misma unidad sedimentaria. Ambas localidades corresponden a depósitos lacustres y fueron explotados mediante minería durante los dos últimos siglos. Con este estudio se ha incrementado la riqueza paleontológica de la Cuenca de Ribesalbes-Alcora, ya que se han hallado los primeros fósiles de la subfamilia Corixinae (Hemiptera: Corixidae), de hormigas de la casta obrera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), del género Exechia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) y de efi pios de Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia), además de la familia

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“…Although in the fossil sample only some external features are present, such as lateral longitudinal ridges and wing with the straight dorsal side and convex on the ventral side, these are the usual features found in the seeds of Pinus in the Cenozoic flora of the Iberian Peninsula (e.g. Hernández-Sampelayo and Cincúnegui 1926;Roiron et al 1999; Barrón and Diéguez 2001;Postigo-Mijarra and Barrón 2013). Laminar size microphyll to notophyll, with L:W ratio 2:1 to 3.5:1.…”

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“…However, the external appearance of the leaf is typical of that of Pinus in the existing literature on the Cenozoic flora of the Iberian Peninsula (e.g. Hernández-Sampelayo and Cincúnegui 1926; Roiron et al 1999;Barrón and Diéguez 2001;Postigo-Mijarra and Barrón 2013). Mai (1998) proposes the use of a species aggregate -Pinus hepios (Unger) Heer, 1855 -for two-needled pines with a short sheath, Oligocene/Early Pliocene in age.…”

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First macroflora data from La Val (Late Oligocene/Early Miocene), Estadilla (Huesca, Spain)

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This paper reports a previously unknown leaf-flora from the Upper Oligocene/Lower Miocene of the Ebro Basin, NE Spain, a period with a relatively poor vascular-plant fossil record in Southern Europe. The presence of Acrostichum sp. is also important. This fern is extremely significant from the point of view of palaeoecology and the depositional environment. The macroflora appears to yield sufficient morphological characteristics to be identified at genus level, and sometimes at species level, although cuticles are not preserved. This article presents the first data obtained from the new outcrop at La Val; the following families have been identified: Pteridaceae, Dennstaedtiaceae, Equisetaceae, Pinaceae, Lauraceae, Hamamelidaceae, Betulaceae, Myricaceae and Salicaceae. The fossil plant assemblage is correlated with the Cadibona floristic complex (Mai, Tertiäre Vegetationsgeschichte Europas. Methoden und Ergebnisse, Gustav Fischer, Jena, 691 pp., 1995) and suggests a subtropical-to-warm temperate climate, rainy and wet, with a short dry season. The age of the assemblage is Late Oligocene/Early Miocene.

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Zonal plant communities of the Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin (La Rinconada mine, eastern Spain) during the early Miocene

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

The early Miocene flora of Güvem (Central Anatolia, Turkey): a window into early Neogene vegetation and environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

The early Miocene flora of Güvem (Central Anatolia, Turkey): a window into early Neogene vegetation and environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

Palaeoentomological study of the lacustrine oil-shales of the lower Miocene San Chils locality (Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin, Castellón province, Spain)

First macroflora data from La Val (Late Oligocene/Early Miocene), Estadilla (Huesca, Spain)

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