Vertebrate ichnofauna from Sierra de las Cabras tracksite, Late Miocene, Jumilla, SE Spainmammalian ichnofauna
- Cayetano Herrero
- Emilio Herrero
- Javier Martín Chivelet 1
- Félix Pérez Lorente 2
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Universidad de La Rioja
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ISSN: 1886-7995, 1698-6180
Año de publicación: 2022
Volumen: 48
Número: 2
Páginas: 241-279
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Journal of iberian geology: an international publication of earth sciences
Resumen
Upper Miocene sedimentary deposits of Sierra de las Cabras in the Prebetic Ranges (Jumilla, Región de Murcia, Spain) yield a exceptional fossil site of diverse vertebrate ichnofauna, including mammals and birds. This paper presents a detailed study of those ichnites of that site which correspond to mammals. The footprints are located in stratigraphic surfaces found in a thin marly limestone succession that can be assigned to the latest Tortonian to earliest Messinian. The mammalian record consists of 324 footprints (included in trackways, pairs, groups and isolated ichnites) of diverse vertebrates, including: Hippipeda, Rhynoceripeda, Canipeda, Felipeda, Ursipeda, Rodentipeda, as well possible Suipeda. The ichnites were imprinted on wet and cohesive marly carbonate mud, deposited in a semi-arid wetland with relevant freshwater infux. The fossil site, cleaned and protected some years ago but herein studied by the frst time, add together the nearby Hoya de la Sima site (Hippipeda, Pecoripeda, Bestiopeda and Paracamelichnium, and probably proboscidean ichnites) to conform an exceptional record of Late Miocene ichnofauna in southern Iberia.
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