000127106 001__ 127106 000127106 005__ 20241125101147.0 000127106 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.5852/CR-PALEVOL2023V22A7 000127106 0248_ $$2sideral$$a134530 000127106 037__ $$aART-2023-134530 000127106 041__ $$aeng 000127106 100__ $$aRosas, Antonio 000127106 245__ $$a2D Geometric morphometrics of the first lower molar of the genus Meles Brisson, 1762 including new badger evidence from the Lower Pleistocene Quibas site (Murcia, Spain) 000127106 260__ $$c2023 000127106 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000127106 5203_ $$aBadgers belong to the genus Meles Brisson, 1762, which comprise four extant species (M. anakuma Temminck, 1844, M. leucurus (Hodgson, 1847), M. canescens Blanford, 1875, and M. meles (Linnaeus, 1758)). The genus is included in the subfamily Melinae Bonaparte, 1838, a polyphyletic group of Eurasian mustelids whose evolutionary relationships need further clarification. The evolutive relationships of the genus are complex and far from being resolved. This work aims to describe a nearly 1 Ma unpublished badger mandible from the Sierra de Quibas (Murcia) and to help clarify the evolutionary patterns of Euroasiatic badgers. To this end, we used 2D geometric morphometric techniques to measure 57 landmarks and semilandmarks in 79 first lower molars (m1) of Meles, ranging from Pleistocene to extant species. Our results show evidence for differentiating between primitive badgers and living species of Meles. The new m1 of Meles from the Quibas site is more gracile (relatively narrower and longer) than the other Eurasian extinct species, and shows that this specimen can be placed in the subspecies M. meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758). Our results also show that the denomination of M. meles atavus Kormos, 1914 as a related subspecies with a primitive morphology is morphologically supported. Therefore, we conclude that the living subspecies of badger M. meles meles was already differentiated in the south of the Iberian Peninsula at around 1 Ma, but some primitive remnant populations persisted in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, for which we recognize the subspecies M. meles atavus. 000127106 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E33-20R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/CGL2016-75109-P$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/PGC2018-094122-B-100$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/PID2020-116220GB-I00 000127106 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000127106 590__ $$a1.2$$b2023 000127106 592__ $$a0.431$$b2023 000127106 591__ $$aPALEONTOLOGY$$b39 / 57 = 0.684$$c2023$$dQ3$$eT3 000127106 593__ $$aPaleontology$$c2023$$dQ2 000127106 594__ $$a2.1$$b2023 000127106 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000127106 700__ $$aSoler-Fajardo, Ana 000127106 700__ $$aGarcia-Tabernero, Antonio 000127106 700__ $$aHuguet, Rosa 000127106 700__ $$aVallverdú, Josep 000127106 700__ $$aFidalgo, Darío 000127106 700__ $$aGalli, Emilia 000127106 700__ $$aPiñero, Pedro 000127106 700__ $$aAgustí, Jordi 000127106 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-1633-2248$$aValenciano, Alberto 000127106 700__ $$aGarcía-Martínez, Daniel 000127106 773__ $$g22, 7 (2023), 91-107$$pC. R. Palevol$$tComptes Rendus - Palevol$$x1631-0683 000127106 8564_ $$s3831734$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/127106/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000127106 8564_ $$s3878483$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/127106/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000127106 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:127106$$particulos$$pdriver 000127106 951__ $$a2024-11-22-12:04:52 000127106 980__ $$aARTICLE