125220 20240319081007.0 doi 10.1080/08912963.2022.2043296 sideral 132183 ART-2022-132183 eng Casanovas-Vilar, Isaac Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Els Casots is one of the richest fossil vertebrate sites of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia, Spain). It was discovered in 1989 and excavated briefly during the 1990s, resulting in the recovery of thousands of remains and the erection of several new mammal species. Excavations were resumed in 2018 and continue to date. Here we provide updated results regarding the age, stratigraphy, biota and palaeoenvironment of the site. The age of the site is well constrained to ~15.9 Ma thanks to recent bio- and magnetostratigraphic data, thus coinciding with the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO). The stratigraphic succession at the site area indicates lacustrine to palustrine environments with cyclically oscillating water level. There are several fossiliferous layers that have yielded a vertebrate fauna comprising up to 75 different vertebrate species including amphibians, reptiles, birds and mostly mammals. The finding of several articulated partial skeletons indicate that the site records an autochthonous to parautochthonous assemblage. The abundance and completeness of the vertebrate remains together with a well-constrained age and detailed stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental data, make els Casots a key site for understanding wetland ecosystems in southern Europe during the MCO. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E33-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/AEI/PGC2018-094122-B-100 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN-AEI/PID2019-106440GB-C21 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/AEI/PID2020-113912GB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/AEI/PID2020-116220GB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/AEI/PID2020-116908GB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/AEI/PID2020-117289GB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ 1.4 2022 PALEONTOLOGY 30 / 54 = 0.556 2022 Q3 T2 0.551 2022 Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) 2022 Q1 3.5 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Garcés, Miguel Marcuello, Álex Abella, Juan Madurell-Malapeira, Joan Jovells-Vaqué, Sílvia Cabrera, Lluís Galindo, Jordi Beamud, Elisabet Ledo, Juan José Queralt, Pilar Martí, Anna Sanjuan, Josep Martín-Closas, Carles Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo Luján, Àngel H. Villa, Andrea DeMiguel, Daniel (orcid)0000-0001-6138-7227 Sánchez, Israel M. Robles, Josep M. Furió, Marc Van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W. Sánchez-Marco, Antonio Sanisidro, Óscar Valenciano, Alberto Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-1633-2248 García-Paredes, Israel Angelone, Chiara Pons-Monjo, Guillem Azanza, Beatriz Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-2487-547X Delfino, Massimo Bolet, Arnau Grau-Camats, Montserrat Vizcaíno-Varo, Víctor Mormeneo, David Kimura, Yuri Moyà-Solà, Salvador Alba, David M. 2000 655 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra Área Paleontología 34, 8 (2022), 1494-1508 Hist. Biol Historical Biology 0891-2963 1605102 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/125220/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1487431 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/125220/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:125220 articulos driver 2024-03-18-14:44:32 ARTICLE