Biochronological data for the Early Pleistocene site of Quibas (SE Spain) inferred from rodents assemblage

Authors

  • P. PIÑERO IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social. Zona educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
  • J. AGUSTÍ BALLESTER IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social. Zona educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Avinguda de Catalunya 35, E43002 Tarragona, Spain. ICREA, Institute of Human Paleoecology.
  • H. BLAIN IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social. Zona educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Avinguda de Catalunya 35, E43002 Tarragona, Spain.
  • M. FURIÓ Institut Català de Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Edifici ICP, Campus de la UAB, s/n, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
  • C. LAPLANA Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid. Plaza de las Bernardas, s/n, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Spain

Keywords:

Biochronology, Rodentia, Early Pleistocene, Iberian Peninsula

Abstract

In this paper, the rodent fauna from the Early Pleistocene of Gruta1 (Quibas karstic complex, Murcia, SE Spain) is described. The assemblage includes one arvicoline (Allophaiomys sp.), two murines (Apodemus ex gr. mystacinus-epimelas, Castillomys rivas) and one glirid (Eliomys quercinus). The rodent assemblage indicates an age very close to the age of Fuente Nueva 3 and Barranco León 5 in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and Sima del Elefante in the Atapuerca karstic complex, between ca. 1.2-1.4My.

 

Author Biography

J. AGUSTÍ BALLESTER, IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social. Zona educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Avinguda de Catalunya 35, E43002 Tarragona, Spain. ICREA, Institute of Human Paleoecology.

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2015-09-25

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Vol. 13 No. 3 (2015)

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