Caracterización paleoambiental de los yacimientos de Paracuellos-3 y Paracuellos-5 (Mioceno medio, Cuenca de Madrid) a partir de la estructura de pesos corporales de las faunas de mamíferos
- Javier Salas-Herrera 1
- Iris Menéndez 2
- Paloma López-Guerrero 3
- Omid Fesharaki 3
- 1 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), España
- 2 Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), España; Departamento de Geología Sedimentaria y Cambio Ambiental, Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM), España.
- 3 Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), España
ISSN: 0213-683X
Year of publication: 2021
Issue Title: Comunicaciones presentadas en la LXX Sesión Científica / SGE-Virtual, 28 de mayo de 2021
Issue: 70
Pages: 47-50
Type: Article
More publications in: Geogaceta
Abstract
The middle Miocene global cooling event has been described at a local scale in central Spain (Madrid Basin). There are well-studied fossil sites as Somosaguas (14.1 Ma) and Cerro de los Batallones (9 Ma). In addition, other fossil sites situated temporarily between them, such as the Paracuellos del Jarama fossil sites have a great potential. In this work, the palaeoenvironments of Paracuellos-5(13.7 Ma) and Paracuellos-3 (12.8 Ma) sites, both from the middle Miocene, have been characterized to show a more complete view of the environmental characteristics prevailing during this period. Six quantitative climatic inference models based on body-size structure of mammal faunas have been used to estimate temperature and precipitation of the study area. The obtained environmental inferences allow formulating the hypothesis that, in a time interval of less than 1 million years, the environment of Paracuellos experienced a trend through slightly more humid conditions, remaining as an extremely arid environment.