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New suid remains from the early Vallesian (Late Miocene) site of Can Missert (Vallès-Penedès Basin)

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No suid remains have been reported from the Miocene site of Can Missert (Terrassa; Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula), variously correlated to MN7+8 (late Aragonian) or MN9 (early Vallesian) due to the uncertain presence of hipparionin equids. The recent donation of fossils collected decades ago by amateur naturalists has confirmed the presence of Hippotherium and enabled the description of a sample of 27 suid teeth from Can Missert 2. They are here attributed to the suine Propotamochoerus palaeochoerus and the tetraconodontine Parachleuastochoerus valentini, while Listriodon splendens is also recorded from Can Missert based on a previously unpublished male upper canine. The co-occurrence of Pr. palaeochoerus and hipparionins at Can Missert strengthens the view that the former is a biochronological marker of the Vallesian. In turn, the described tetraconodontine remains support the distinction of Pa. valentini from Conohyus simorrensis—considered its senior subjective synonym by some authors—but do not contribute to the ongoing debate about their potential congeneric status. The co-occurrence of Pr. palaeochoerus and Pa. valentini has also been recorded from the earliest Vallesian sites of Creu de Conill 20 and Castell de Barberà within the same basin. However, the composition of the Can Missert 2 suid assemblage more clearly differs from that of Castell de Barberà, where both Listriodon splendens and Albanohyus castellensis are also abundant. Given the restricted size of Can Missert sample, it is uncertain whether such differences are indicative of more open and/or seasonal paleoenvironmental conditions at Can Missert or just the result of sampling biases.

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The fossil material studied in this paper is housed and adequately curated in the ICP and is accessible to other researchers. All the data generated in the course of this study are provided in the paper. The dataset of previously published measurements analyzed during the current study is available from the corresponding author on request.

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Acknowledgements

We are enormously indebted to Juan Luis del Campo Capilla for donating the collection of fossils from CMI to the ICP, providing details about the provenance of the fossils, allowing us to reproduce a picture of the site, and accompanying us to visit what remains of the original outcrops. We also thank the two reviewers (Alessio Iannucci and an anonymous one) for useful comments that helped us improve a previous version of this paper. This work is part of the PhD dissertation of S.S., in the framework of the PhD Programme in Biodiversity of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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This publication is part of R+D+I projects PID2020-117289GB-I00, PID2020-116908GB-I00, and PID2020-117118GB-I00, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación from Spain (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/). Research has also been funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya/CERCA Programme; the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Consolidated Research Group 2022 SGR 00620); the Departament de Cultura of the Generalitat de Catalunya (CLT0009_22_000018); a predoctoral Joan Oró-FI fellowship (2023 FI-1 00396) to S.S., cofunded by the the Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (Departament de Recerca i Universitats, Generalitat de Catalunya) and the European Social Fund Plus (FSE+); a technician contract of the INVESTIGO Program 2022 (reference 100027TC1) financed by the European Union, Next Generation EU to S.G.A.; and a predoctoral fellowship from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (CTGR) to S.M.

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  1. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c/ Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

    David M. Alba, Souzanna Siarabi, Sara G. Arranz, Jordi Galindo, Sharrah McKenzie, Víctor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles & Isaac Casanovas-Vilar

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D.M.A. designed the study. J.G. and J.M.R. inventoried the new material. D.M.A., S.S., and S.G.A. identified the suid remains. S.G.A. took the photographs and measured the specimens. J.G., V.V., J.M.R., and I.C.V. studied the geological context. D.M.A., S.S., and I.C.V. prepared the figures. D.M.A. wrote the manuscript with input from the remaining authors.

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Alba, D.M., Siarabi, S., Arranz, S.G. et al. New suid remains from the early Vallesian (Late Miocene) site of Can Missert (Vallès-Penedès Basin). J Mammal Evol 31, 19 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-024-09712-9

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