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Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene

In the Iberian Peninsula the fossil record of artiodactyls spans over 53 million years. During the Pleistocene, wild cattle species such as Bison and especially Bos became common. In Late Pleistocene, the aurochs (Bos primigenius) was widespread and the only bovine living along the large river valle...

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Autores principales: de Carvalho, Carlos Neto, Muñiz, Fernando, Cáceres, Luis M., Belaústegui, Zain, Rodríguez-Vidal, Joaquín, Belo, João, Moreira, Noel, Cachão, Mário, Cunha, Pedro P., Figueiredo, Silvério, Galán, José María, Zhang, Yilu, Gómez, Paula, Toscano, Antonio, Ruiz, Francisco, Ramírez-Cruzado, Samuel, Giles-Guzmán, Francisco, Finlayson, Geraldine, Finlayson, Stewart, Finlayson, Clive
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9198092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35701579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14137-6
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author de Carvalho, Carlos Neto
Muñiz, Fernando
Cáceres, Luis M.
Belaústegui, Zain
Rodríguez-Vidal, Joaquín
Belo, João
Moreira, Noel
Cachão, Mário
Cunha, Pedro P.
Figueiredo, Silvério
Galán, José María
Zhang, Yilu
Gómez, Paula
Toscano, Antonio
Ruiz, Francisco
Ramírez-Cruzado, Samuel
Giles-Guzmán, Francisco
Finlayson, Geraldine
Finlayson, Stewart
Finlayson, Clive
author_facet de Carvalho, Carlos Neto
Muñiz, Fernando
Cáceres, Luis M.
Belaústegui, Zain
Rodríguez-Vidal, Joaquín
Belo, João
Moreira, Noel
Cachão, Mário
Cunha, Pedro P.
Figueiredo, Silvério
Galán, José María
Zhang, Yilu
Gómez, Paula
Toscano, Antonio
Ruiz, Francisco
Ramírez-Cruzado, Samuel
Giles-Guzmán, Francisco
Finlayson, Geraldine
Finlayson, Stewart
Finlayson, Clive
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description In the Iberian Peninsula the fossil record of artiodactyls spans over 53 million years. During the Pleistocene, wild cattle species such as Bison and especially Bos became common. In Late Pleistocene, the aurochs (Bos primigenius) was widespread and the only bovine living along the large river valleys of southern Iberia. Although commonly found in fossil sites and especially in cave bone assemblages, the trace fossil record of aurochs was known worldwide only from the Holocene. Large bovine and roe deer/caprine tracks were found in at least five horizons of the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5) beach and eolian deposits of Cape Trafalgar (Cadiz Province, South of Spain). The large bovine tracks are formally described as Bovinichnus uripeda igen. et isp. nov. and compared with the record of aurochs tracks, large red deer tracks and steppe bison biogeographical distribution in Iberia. Aurochs were the most likely producers of the newly described Trafalgar Trampled Surface (TTS) and some of the large artiodactyl tracks in the Matalascañas Trampled Surface, representing the oldest aurochs track record known. This new evidence, together with comparisons with the record of possible aurochs tracks in the Mid-Late Pleistocene coastal deposits from the Asperillo cliff section in Matalascañas (Huelva Province, SW Spain) and bone assemblages known in Gibraltar, point to a recurrent use of the coastal habitat by these large artiodactyls in SW Iberia.
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spelling pubmed-91980922022-06-16 Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene de Carvalho, Carlos Neto Muñiz, Fernando Cáceres, Luis M. Belaústegui, Zain Rodríguez-Vidal, Joaquín Belo, João Moreira, Noel Cachão, Mário Cunha, Pedro P. Figueiredo, Silvério Galán, José María Zhang, Yilu Gómez, Paula Toscano, Antonio Ruiz, Francisco Ramírez-Cruzado, Samuel Giles-Guzmán, Francisco Finlayson, Geraldine Finlayson, Stewart Finlayson, Clive Sci Rep Article In the Iberian Peninsula the fossil record of artiodactyls spans over 53 million years. During the Pleistocene, wild cattle species such as Bison and especially Bos became common. In Late Pleistocene, the aurochs (Bos primigenius) was widespread and the only bovine living along the large river valleys of southern Iberia. Although commonly found in fossil sites and especially in cave bone assemblages, the trace fossil record of aurochs was known worldwide only from the Holocene. Large bovine and roe deer/caprine tracks were found in at least five horizons of the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5) beach and eolian deposits of Cape Trafalgar (Cadiz Province, South of Spain). The large bovine tracks are formally described as Bovinichnus uripeda igen. et isp. nov. and compared with the record of aurochs tracks, large red deer tracks and steppe bison biogeographical distribution in Iberia. Aurochs were the most likely producers of the newly described Trafalgar Trampled Surface (TTS) and some of the large artiodactyl tracks in the Matalascañas Trampled Surface, representing the oldest aurochs track record known. This new evidence, together with comparisons with the record of possible aurochs tracks in the Mid-Late Pleistocene coastal deposits from the Asperillo cliff section in Matalascañas (Huelva Province, SW Spain) and bone assemblages known in Gibraltar, point to a recurrent use of the coastal habitat by these large artiodactyls in SW Iberia. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9198092/ /pubmed/35701579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14137-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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de Carvalho, Carlos Neto
Muñiz, Fernando
Cáceres, Luis M.
Belaústegui, Zain
Rodríguez-Vidal, Joaquín
Belo, João
Moreira, Noel
Cachão, Mário
Cunha, Pedro P.
Figueiredo, Silvério
Galán, José María
Zhang, Yilu
Gómez, Paula
Toscano, Antonio
Ruiz, Francisco
Ramírez-Cruzado, Samuel
Giles-Guzmán, Francisco
Finlayson, Geraldine
Finlayson, Stewart
Finlayson, Clive
Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene
title Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene
title_full Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene
title_fullStr Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene
title_full_unstemmed Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene
title_short Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene
title_sort aurochs roamed along the sw coast of andalusia (spain) during late pleistocene
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9198092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35701579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14137-6
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