Los Batanes (Biescas, Spain), a roost site for horseshoe bats in the Pyrenees during the late Pleistocene

Galán, J. ; Núñez-Lahuerta, C. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Sauqué, V. ; Rabal-Garcés, R. ; López-García, J.M. ; Cuenca-Bescós, G. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Los Batanes C4 is a cave-site in the Spanish Pyrenees, the minimum sediment calendar age was determined to be 15, 234 ± 223 cal BP by radiocarbon dating. The cave opens on the northern bank of an eastern tributary of the River Gállego, at an altitude of 1025 m. The small vertebrates recorded are mainly bats, in order of abundance Rhinolophus euryale, R. ferrumequinum, Myotis sp. and Miniopterus schreibersii. The association suggests that at the time of the accumulation the climate was reasonably similar to the current climate; we situate it within a period of local retreat of the ice-cover in the Gállego Valley during the Lateglacial. This is the highest record of these species of Rhinolophus in the Iberian Quaternary, showing that the R. euryale altitudinal range was similar to its extant range during the favourable periods of the Lateglacial. This could indicate that this taxon was relatively quick in spreading into higher regions whenever climate conditions allowed it.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.04.015

Año: 2018

Publicado en: Quaternary International 481 (2018), 135-145
ISSN: 1040-6182

Factor impacto JCR: 1.952 (2018)

Categ. JCR: GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL rank: 30 / 50 = 0.6 (2018) - Q3 - T2
Categ. JCR: GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 104 / 195 = 0.533 (2018) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.159 - Earth-Surface Processes (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/FSE

Tipo y forma: Artículo (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Paleontología (Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra)