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The micromammal fauna from Negratín-1 (Guadix Basin, southern Spain): new evidence of African-Iberian mammal exchanges during the Late Miocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Raef Minwer-Bararat ,
Antonio García-Alix ,
Jordi Agustí ,
Elvira Martín Suárez  and
Matthijs Freudenthal
Raef Minwer-Bararat
Affiliation:
Institut Català de Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain,
Antonio García-Alix
Affiliation:
Institut Català de Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
Jordi Agustí
Affiliation:
ICREA, Institut de Paleoecología Humana, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; PI. Imperial Tarraco, 1, 42005 Tarragona, Spain
Elvira Martín Suárez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Matthijs Freudenthal
Affiliation:
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Abstract

A rich and diverse micromammal fauna from the late Turolian (MN13) locality of Negratín-1 (Guadix Basin, southern Spain) is described. The faunal list of this site includes Apodemus gudrunae, Occitanomys alcalai, Stephanomys dubari, Paraethomys meini, Myocricetodon jaegeri, Debruijnimys almenarensis, Apocricetus alberti, Ruscinomys sp., Eliomys sp., Atlantoxerus sp., Parasorex ibericus, and Soricidae indet. This is the most nearly complete mammal fauna from the Miocene of the Guadix Basin and allows precise correlations with localities from other Iberian areas. In addition, some of the taxa identified in Negratín-1 are useful as palaeoecological indicators (Myocricetodon, Debruijnimys, Atlantoxerus), evidencing warm and dry climatic conditions. But the principal interest of the fauna from Negratín-1 is the presence of several species of African origin, the gerbillids Debruijnimys almenarensis and Myocricetodon jaegeri, which are recognized for the first time in Europe. We also ascribe to M. jaegeri the population from the upper Turolian karst infilling of Almenara-M. This finding constitutes new evidence for faunal exchanges between North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula during the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 83 , Issue 6 , November 2009 , pp. 854 - 879
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