Late Miocene/Early Pliocene vertebrate fauna from Mallorca(Balearic Islands,Western Mediterranean):an update

作     者：Pere BOVER Juan ROFES Salvador BAILON Jordi AGUSTÍ Gloria CUENCA-BESCÓS Enric TORRES Josep Antoni ALCOVER 

作者机构：IMEDEA(CSIC-UIB)Mediterranean Institute for Advanced StudiesDepartment of Biodiversity and ConservationBalearic IslandsSpain Research Associate Division of Vertebrate Zoology/Mammalogy DepartmentAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryNew YorkNYUSA Department of Stratigraphy and PaleontologyUniversity of the Basque CountryLeioaSpain Grupo Aragosaurus-IUCAArea of PaleontologíaEarth Sciences DepartmentUniversity of ZaragozaZaragozaSpain UMR 7209-7194 of CNRSDepartment of Ecology and Biodiversity ManagementNational Museum of Natural HistoryParisFrance ICREAInstitut Catalàde Paleoecologia Humana i EvolucióSocial(IPHES)Universitat Rovira i VirgiliTarragonaSpain 

出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第9卷第2期

页      面：183-196页

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学科分类：081803[工学-地质工程] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 

基　　金：This paper is included in the projects CGL2012-38087 CGL2009-12703-C03-03 EHU 10/32(Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU)and CGL2012-38358 

主　　题：Early Pliocene Late Miocene Mallorca new fauna paleobiogeography 

摘      要：The vertebrate fossil record from the Balearic Islands(western Mediterranean)has improved considerably over the past decade,especially in Mallorca and *** Menorca,the Pliocene terrestrial fauna was updated by the discovery and description of the large-sized leporid Nuralagus,several reptiles and an *** Mal-lorca,paleontological exploration yielded 2 deposits with a Late Miocene/Early Pliocene chronology,Calóden Rafelino(CdR)and Na Burguesa-1(NB-1).So far,4 new mammalian taxa and 2 new reptiles have been iden-tified for the CdR deposit,whereas the faunal assemblage from the recently discovered deposit(Apr 2012)of NB-1 is currently composed of,at least,6 terrestrial mammals,8 reptiles and an *** faunal composi-tion and some primitive characteristics of the obtained taxa suggest that the chronology of this deposit is slight-ly earlier than the *** terrestrial vertebrates recorded in these 2 Mallorcan deposits are changing the view of the paleofaunal assemblage previously known for the Plio-Pleistocene of the *** charac-teristics displayed by some of the taxa suggest that these faunas would be at the beginning of an isolated *** this paper we present a preliminary report on the fossils recovered from the NB-1 deposit,as well as some unpublished data from CdR,and we analyze the whole fauna from both Mallorcan deposits,focusing on taxonomical and paleobiogeographical aspects.