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A late Miocene mammalian fauna from Olba in the Sarrión Depression, eastern Spain

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The Olba vertebrate locality, discovered in 1974, was mentioned in several publications, but its fauna has never been studied. The locality is situated in the Sarrión Depression, on the road from La Escaleruela to Olba, and it is included in the lower unit of this depression, which unconformably covers the Jurassic-Cretaceous basement and the early Miocene deposits of the Rubielos de Mora graben. This paper presents an exhaustive study of the remains of large and small mammals that were collected by E. Moissenet and preserved up to the present time in the Paleontology collections of the Paris Natural History Museum. The major taxa represented in this material are Ruminantia (Lucentia iberica and ?Micromeryx sp.), Suidae (Microstonyx cf. major), Equidae (Hipparion sp.), Erinaceidae (Parasorex ibericus), Ochotonidae (Prolagus crusafonti) and the muroids (Hispanomys cf. adroveri and Occitanomys sp). An age of early-middle Turolian can be assigned to this fauna based on the similarities of these species with Crevillente 2 and Los Mansuetos, both in Spain, which are respectively the reference localities of the Neogene mammalian zones MN11 and MN12. The composition of the fauna is comparable to that of Turolian localities in the Calatayud-Teruel Basin, indicating an open woodland environment.

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Die 1974 entdeckte Wirbeltier-Fundstelle Olba wurde bereits in mehreren Arbeiten erwähnt, aber bis jetzt wurde die Fauna nicht detailliert untersucht. Die Fundstelle liegt in der Sarrion-Senke an der Straße zwischen La Escaleruela und Olba in Ostspanien. Sie ist Bestandteil der unteren Einheit dieser Senke, die diskordant auf der Jura-Kreide Beckenbasis und frühmiozänen Sedimente des Rubielos-de-Mora-Beckens liegt. Hier stellen wir eine umfangreiche Untersuchung der Groß- und Kleinsäugeresten vor, die sich in der paläontologischen Sammlung des naturhistorischen Museums in Paris befinden. In dieser Fundstelle konnten Vertreter der Ruminantia (Lucentia iberica and ?Micromeryx sp.), Suidae (Microstonyx cf. major), Equidae (Hipparion sp.), Erinaceidae (Parasorex ibericus), Ochotonidae (Prolagus crusafonti) und mäuseartigen (Hispanomys cf. adroveri und Occitanomys sp.) nachgewiesen werden. Das Alter der Fundstelle ist Fruh- bis Mittelturolium aufgrund von Ähnlichkeiten der Arten mit denen aus Crevillente 2 und Los Mansuetos (Spanien), die Referenzfundstellen der Neogenen Säugetierzonen MN11 und MN12 darstellen. Die Wirbeltierfauna aus Olba ist vergleichbar mit Faunen aus den turolischen Fundstellen des Calatayud-Teruel Beckens, die auf eine Offenwald-Landschaft hindeuten.

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Acknowledgments

We are indebted to Mrs Nicole Moissenet for putting at our disposal all the documentation (maps, drawings, field notes) left by Etienne Moissenet and for finding among the huge quantity of documents those related to the Olba locality. Emile Heintz informed us on the origins of the studied material. Pere Anadón (Barcelona) provided useful information for the location of the Olba vertebrate site, and for key papers on the geology and stratigraphy of the Sarrión Depression. Jean-Claude Rage (CNRS, Paris) and Martin Pickford (Collège de France-MNHN, Paris) helped with determination of amphibians, reptiles, and some mammalian remains. Isaac Casanovas-Vilar (Sabadell) advised us on the literature dealing with Turolian paleoenvironments in Spain. Alexandre Lethiers (UPMC, Paris) redrew the geologic map of Fig. 1. Sylvain Pont (MNHN, Paris) made the SEM photographs of rodent and insectivore teeth on a TESCAN Vega2 electron microscope. Philippe Loubry (CNRS, Paris) made the photos of large mammal fossils. We are grateful to all of them. We would like to thank the referees Lars van den Hoek Ostende and an anonymous one for their valuable comments.

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    Sevket Sen, Fabrice Fack, Grégoire Métais & Etienne Moissenet

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Sen, S., Fack, F., Métais, G. et al. A late Miocene mammalian fauna from Olba in the Sarrión Depression, eastern Spain. Paläontol Z 89, 545–562 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-014-0236-2

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