Additional hominoid material from Miocene of
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Additional hominoid material from Miocene of
Contr. Tert. Quatern. Geol. figs, 9 25-39 36(1-4) tab. 1 1999 Leiden, December Additional hominoid material from the Miocene of Spain and remarks on into Europe hominoid dispersals J. van der Made Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid, Spain and F. Ribot Paleontologic Institut Dr M. Crusafont Sabadell, Spain Made, J. van der & F. Contr. Tert. A hominoid (Barcelona) Vallès-Penedès. first With hominoid may Griphopithecus Europe. J. Van The der 9 entered ages of — Ma Anatolia hominoids from the collections this and such may later events (beginning ago are likely than Dryopithecus to ago Çandir may of Museo Dr M. Nacional Crusafont, de Ciencias C. Escola and remarks Spain have Naturales, CSIC, Industrial 23, E-08201 from the the be were 1920s housed first a (late are related MN close; 5), Introduction Description p. 25 comparison The ages of Turkish and material . also Dispersal Summary p. European p. dryopithecines into 28 p. 34 Europe and conclusions p. 35 hominoid age, Gutierrez in level only. an area, Bruijn Geologia del Semi- Geologia the in global climate. the as The European remains of different a genus. ago (late MN the same species. Remains from entered 6) it Africa. F. Madrid, Spain; Institut Ribot, Dryopithecus to in the MLGSB. a At 'locality', of (JvdM) us suid 1920s, which that et 1992), al., MN MN 9) one, Can 7 record 8; an later was time, Hostalets Neogene to Late a a to was single represent Aragonian Mammal Units, Lower Vallesian be older Llobateres localities that the present old collection from collec- a with fossils from considered In view of the fact an + and recog- fossils tooth is from stratigraphical levels, two (Upper than (Agusti et the al., Dryopithecus ('Hostalets oc'), its exact provenance remains unknown. Villalta Cornelia & first one amongst To date, 'Hostalets' is considered stratigraphical the col- Ma de discussed here are and coming directly Guérin be to tooth is from in ago, new Ponsic and 1984). suids 12.5 than specimen (Middle Miocene, Can lections of the Museu i Laboratori de Laboratori represent even (MLGSB), the to with Miocene, fossil i clear. Since might E-28006 2, M. by transferred p. 37 studying — dispersals. present tion made Acknowledgements and Europe. have been collected changes might represent Barcelona the References cataloguing later Abascal de When into Sabadell, Spain. p. 37 Introduction and 12.5 Ma still assumed Miocene hominoids of . 27 not are these occurrences entered Europe Jose and not Hostalets. The new Museu tooth to sea level eustatic to 5); its affinities nised of the at the dryopithecine different species, nari Contents and dispersals hominoid on 1999. well MN represent 14 Ma Hadersdorf and Klein younger. Ma they not probably in Dryopithecus; mammals, 15.5 younger, Miocene of Leiden, December 1 tab. older European Dryopithecus localities, hominoid dispersals into Europe of other from much genus one of the dispersals 3 figs, Dryopithecus, Hominoidea, Vallès-Penedès, stratigraphic Made, Paleontologic as to the entered Europe least material hominoid Hostalets, recently recognised assigned with have at are from is Neudorf-Sandbergare Key words Additional Hostalets These coincided Griphopithecus from molar upper del Seminari well. Ribot. Quatern. Geol., 36(1-4): 25-39, a Crusafont Pairo dryopithecine (1941) were the from the Valles-Penedes. 26 1. Fig. MLGSB 48486, right posterior views, This fossil Villalta (IPS 1), Cornelia consisted of lower Crusafont teeth united two and IPS Crusafont 1827 in the from Can Vila font Pairo Late Aragonian) Can Mata-Ocata authors not were represent were stated (= a age, area nian Vallesian age. Aragonian age that the (Agusti originally of mandible, numbered IPS specimen near 1826 found was track a now and noted had that other beds yielded of the fact that none specimen et from of these is figures upper - stereo pair of occlusal middle view, - buccal and present oldest recorded to Llobateres (= the et al., date from the (attributed 1990). remains of right molar of material of D. (= type to In European hominoid area. D. laietanus) In light additional data hominoid localities into have to being been Material from Can Ponsic of on one this, the and 1992a) and Can is younger addition, it represents dispersal interest in special Dryopithecus crusafonti Begun, to Dryopithecus. present is of specimen upper (= These species the beds favours work has an et that Arago- resulted considered al., 1984; Begun The the (Begun of the oldest the time (relative) discuss a seems ages of model of Europe. Hostalets did Six other mammal Subsequent in Hipparion. collected 4; by leading be of Vindobonian to x occidentalis 1949, Mata. Villalta Cornelia & Crusa- been mandible; consensus piece now single locality. have a Hostalets, lingual views. Pairo, The aware the the by considered it yielded or and of Hostalets, Can already to are M3). area to (1941) from of Dryopithecus anterior the type of Sivapithecus & lost. The isolated molars M2) M² - to be Abbreviations ied; the to — Numerous collections have indicate the following repositories abbreviations are of specimens used: in of al., 1990). GML Geological HGSB Hungarian Geological Survey, Budapest Museum, Lisbon been studexamined 27 IGGML Institut fiir Geowissenschaften/Geologie der Montan- universitat Mesio-distal diametre IPS Institut Paleontologic IPUW Institut fur Palaontologie, Universitat Dr M. IVAU Instituut Wien Bucco-lingual Universiteit Aardwetenschappen, voor 11.3 Crusafont, Sabadell width of the first lobe 11.5 (= maximum width) Utrecht MGB Museo MGL Museum MLGSB Museu Bucco-lingual width between the lobes Barcelona Geologico, Guimet, Lyon of the crown, Maximum diagonal MNCN Museo Nacional MNHN Museum MPZ Museo MTA Maden Tetkik NMB Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel Minimum diagonal of NMM Naturhistorisches Museum, Mainz d2 national Ciencias Naturales, Madrid d'Histoire the Minimum diagonal of crown, D1 12.5 dl 11.5 Paris naturelle, de la Paleontologico 9.7 posterior lobe Barce- lona de the Bucco-lingual width of i Laboratori de Geologia del Seminari, 10.4 Universidad de Maximum diagonal of the Zaragoza occlusal 10.2 surface, D2 ve Arama, Ankara NMW Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien PIMUZ Palaontologisches PDTFAU Paleoantropoloii, Institut und Mesio-distal length of Museum, Universitat Zurich Mesio-distal Ankara Dil Tarih ve SMNS Staatliches Museum fiir Naturkunde, Stuttgart UCBL Universite Landesmuseum Claude Joanneum,Graz Table 1. AND COMPARISON OF THE NEW probably a the present for its reason this though morphologies. ent The primate. indicating in or occur and suids, includes very term hypocone include in being has slightly a trianglular a given merges the recognisable, are Aragonian mesio-distally a and Valle- reduced or The with nearly un- M' or an M. Meas- mesio-lingual transcrista, The crest crest pule, crest is a is short and adds of the to longer protocone (proto- of the paracone forms part which ends abruptly mesio-marginal and anterior transcrista converge in reminiscent of the protoconule. one at crest, point, A small a the base protocrista small cus- disto-lingual the M² 48486, right from Hostalets. metaconule in this a crista separates On obliqua. marginal-distal the by trigonal wide on at much variation in a wall relatively wide; (Dvinska Nova a an hypocone. assumed of 11.6 (IPUW, cast). wider than the Dryopithecus the is much larger Valles-Penedes ranges for the M2 the M a 1 which There is a no have deep a furrow hypocone, to mm NT (Steininger, width of in 13.5 particular, upper molars Rudabanya, (Fig. 2), an a Ml of are Neudorf-Sandberg be and larger and, than the and darwini Griphopithecus of It 2). smooth. There is upper molar from Ves), length The tooth is a the buccal wall. on molars upper has the are pliopithecids, between the protocone and similar furrow The tooth unlike in cingulum, lingual have not all. cingulum along the and cusp is transcrista of the Carabelli cusp in the upper molars four sides of the The the near hypocone posterior of D. laietanus; the tooth from Hostalets does Carabelli of crest 'postmetacone' a The There is crest. tri- large the distal side of the cusp'. accessory The crest. the directed and ends small accessory cusp, a 'postmetacone' development 1967), crest, which is there is to and the absent metacone, outline. The tooth trapezoidal mesio-marginal the mesial protocrista. a bucco-distally, or even an elongated, has crown rounded mesial crista of the paracone of the anterior of to in Table 1. the formation of the crista). morphologi- united pliopithecids, Dryopith- from Hostalets is therefore either are 3.5 of MLGSB (in mm) mesio-buccally 'postero-external lingual surface like the M' which have and pri- differ- specimen belongs outline. The base of the square outline, The ursids and Griphopithecus. rectangular urements 1) is end of the being and ecus occlusal posterior fovea direction and diagonal a hypoconc lingual metacone upper molar. an European primates resulting bunodont is confounded with that of descriptive trigon that it is is (Fig. The low cusps and other sian The 4.6 indication of no tooth cal features indicate that the present a fovea basin from the smaller talon. The gonid suid. 'Bunodont molars' mates, anterior of the length Measurements is in crest the the the Bernard, Lyon MATERIAL that 7.2 of Dryopithecus There is fact surface, Universitesi, Ankara Steiermarkisches The occlusal Facultesi, Cografya SLJG DESCRIPTION the (compare Fig. Dryopithecus but from into enters and is similar in mm much morphology the to 2 and M detailed of D. laietanus description). that of any of the M 1 (see Golpe Posse, 1993 for The size of MGSB 48486 exceeds of Dryopithecus from the Vallès2 directed from the the protocone. These anterior transcrista tinuous and two crests is connects paracone do the buccal not meet formed. The proto- and to crista metacone. and crest no obliqua of second is con- Pencdès and (Fig. 2). Ribot We (1993; Rudabänya, but is within the ranges of the M believe the tooth is see also Ribot et an al., M' of Dryopithecus. 1996) assigned material from the Valles-Penedes to D. laietanus. all 28 2. Fig. M¹ THE and transverse Bivariate plots of meso-distal diameter (DAP) and M² AGES TURKISH OF and central of Dryopithecus from Rudabánya EUROPEAN AND diameter control of graphic material is type material from and cally This is ited reasons it is important the hominoid localities. often have and incomplete, several close, by precise stratigraphic (and Before reason. passed through Anatolia; areas are are the important Fig. 3. still Correlation age many European scheme; indication in assumed to dispersal events. units have left column this eustatic allowed The next for and columns African localities central columns show suoid that particular lineage, taxonomic Taucanamo with and the lineage (Van der der sea level corrected faunas two give the according samples are of Haq et al. cycles age Miller by of the ages and their above the double described in Parachleuastochoerus lineage (Van der to 8. There explanation, was of the ages of MN to MN 6, European place the tremendous difference a on placed in the of MN boundary of MN 5. In content where the reference localities of the be included situated, palaeontologists Aragonian 5, but D zone in & (Daams central Europe Freudenthal, similar faunas in MN4. Van (1987), and al. (Pickford, European are der Each animals. The 1986; and more elsewhere; der ages (1996). Vallesian (1994, 1996). The Made, 1997a, 1998),Bunolistriodon Made, 1996a),Conohyus lineage (Van 1997a, 1998),Tethytragus langai lineage (Fig. 5; in Aragonian and et al. lines detail et of terrestrial Krijgsman their radiometric 1992). are zonation to of placed were dispersals bovid lineages change. The lineages lineage (Van the intercontinental with dates of the lower limits (1981) in - column being there study Mammal For instance, forward arguments localities, put MN units tend correlations of hominoid localities; a the mm. the estima- Neudorf-Sandberg in (1986), and France, Spain 1988) in the problems and al., in Neogene in the estimate of the age of the lower obviously important. There Hadersdorf used et 5. There has been discussion hominoids correlations between these measurements without (1992), al. et localities in MN is history Bruijn hominoid united. but may be lim- Europe, Bruijn de (MN units; whereas Mein palaeobiogeographic) in arriving commonly Units Klein reason is (triangles) compared to individual localities and with tion of the age of the de geographi- are information. The reconstruction of hominoid another strati- Hominoid frequently subjective element, a good a for that localities which stratigraphically obviously to the tooth from Hostalets with problems MIOCENE HOMINOIDS For several (DT) of Europe (dots) and the Vallès-Penedès (crosses); (in Ma) latidens each with thick black horizontal (Daams & last column other references advanced than of starts Turkish localities. Bunolistriodon of onset cycle given by those cycle, the second level low, sea the Faunal Van lines below; a and Sets of der Made, in is the MN Pickford 1996a). The column indicate that generally lineage (Van this is der reflected Made, in a 1996a), lineage (Van der Made, 1996a), Listriodon splendens Made, 1989, 1990a, 1999b), Schizochoerus lineage (Van Made, 1994), Tethytragus Made, 1990a, 1999b). which lines indicate these Freudenthal, 1988) gives Double lockharti a koehlerae lineage (Van der der Made, Made, 1994), 29 30 As compromise, a al., et man D zone correlations with marine and Spanish ties and sections (Krijgs- great difference be- a in the strata mammal localiUnits MN 7 and sequences. united into MN 7+8 (de Bruijn In the present paper, MN 7 and MN 8 informal indicate to manner early on Paratethys western superimposed with long palaeomagnetic have been 8 1992). an is the estimates of the ages of the MN units based tween MN included in MN 5 was there Still, 1996). used in are late or al., et MN 7+8, The in stratigraphy 3. Fig. their ages given are present events of their lower boundaries ages African in the column. The central col- right selection of suoid and bovid a these ual, though fluctuations in evolutionary occurred. in time. In both spaced tive level be can ble lines in the Besides, seen cases subsequent clearly but ally, evolved more than aspect Douline- particular fossils with those below. this coincides invariably, not to evenly samples. yielded age, the localities above the line have a likely not are grad- clear difference in evolu- a between is rates are samples and lineages lineages column indicate that for that a (Pick- with Gener- change a in Andrews and Pasalar Hadersdorf al. et in MN5-6 and hominoids from to (1996, Qandir G. to yielded 1996), ment opinion and This course species or is the both the impression that the gap between so al., and, Griphopithecus 1999). Engelswies be cannot from Qandir, Andrews et copithecus wished a (1996) has been one to a possibility to be that taxonomical is present of different considered. defined a on stehlini’ type include study; the grouping. four posed with The in MN fossils ma- bones Austria- not based led cerus There (1986) to Bruijn et de localities have are localities, studies few our of various was above The (1992). sup- MN 6, though in MN high to the have to Protragoin locality MN the 8. locality with boundary MN mammals. mainly large large a mainly have placed usually above been Pasalar, that suggests it is in MN5. to though usu- position much to The placed assigned for this. The provided us framework. stratigraphic on study mammals would allow Qandir 6 based being the former has also been arguments no the a though supposed of (last played The detailed century ago. a of localities Pasalar and has locality, (1992) placed knowledge half lineages of the place al. yielded these localities in of younger Neudorf-Sandberg. The best documented evidence for the relative strati- graphic positions of Pasalar and Bunolistriodon latidens distal that diameter of the et al., and Pasalar and VI and in the langai £andir I der from the in meso- indicates 1996a; Made, and (Bovidae) than (Fig. 4; size der Suoidea) I is older than (Van der on the that IV & Made, 1994, Arago- 1988). Changes lineage indicate that Pasalar and Pasalar and del Val section of the & Freudenthal, in suggest Arroyo Van is in the type (Daams incisors splendens hypsodonty older younger than Sansan inonii suids Taucanamo sansaniensis-inonuensis laeochoeridae, are are Manchones i C2 in lineage Manchones zone these Qandir (Van in Listriodon increase Tethytragus of incisors comes increase 19%). Similar trends canines Qandir The lineage. Pasalar is older than Fortelius 1996a). different ages was ‘Gazella revisions of the faunas from these recent current published nian in the of The presence in MN6, close very low grouping or al. been subsequently (Mein, 1986). Mein 5. These underlying possibility Neudorf- Hadersdorf presence et Bruijn 3 to localities. Neudorf-Sandberg at 5) have Nevertheless, place mi- Ma; therefore 1.5 Klein in the estimation of the age these on lockharti presence of the suid Bunolistriodon been reworked al. gives de be 14 and in the top of MN6, far (Mein, 1986) occurrence role based 16 and some the more der Made, Hadersdorf and of is probably opinion, widely. because than et Klein Neudorf-Sandberg, by material localities 8 current material from Klein is MN £andir long geographical in all species to obviously morphological seems species with the proposed as two in placed for varied have or is between ad- an that from low in MN 5, which accepted Griphopithecus estimates Age Sandberg should the latter date and to Ma older than the ally The accepted. closer probably (1992) from Neudorf. Nevertheless, darwini. This comparative corresponds not al. in G. assumption that cromammals. The age is and Aragonian (Van (1995) the suid Bunolistri- stage which locality Ziegler's to corresponds the to (Heizmann, Ravensburg in the later part of zone D, assign- minimise to Engelswies The 1996a). E of the zone are and localities for which the directly with that weinfurteri, Hadersdorf, on compared nor the than primitive the yielded from one evolutionary an is MN5-6, which terial from Klein Hadersdorf consists of and an has lower Sweet Water Molasse and of the end of MN5, form, typical Engelswies transition of the is in the middle unit The Generally, (Jandir al., et Heizmann though doing they to maintained in in MN6, Andrews to and Engelswies (Heizmann Although placed Engelswies Pasalar difficult basis for localities in from from one et the and Klein Hadersdorf tooth MN5 is that Pasalar is assigned a Klein assigned classification is genus. in They those Köhler (e.g. Engelswies presence of MN6. fragmentary a which of to (1996) papers only placed sp. Engelswies Neudorf-Sandberg, in darwini, alpani ?i Griphopithecus subsequent and Neudorf-Sandberg Griphopithecus Qandir 12.7) placed table the Upper localities have loackharti. vanced again taxonomy. in Ravensburg Both 1992). odon and Arabian localities and their localities. The evolution in have and Vallesian Aragonian the synthesised are the left, while Faunal Sets on selected 1981), umns units, MN in columns given ford, dispersal and the estimated zones are The and of locality placed respectively. is Engelswies middle unit of the Made, 1993, the basis of two (Pa- Inonii I 1997a). listrio- 31 Fig. 4. Increase in in length (DAP mm) Tethytragus langai lineage. Manchones and Arroyo The del Val and hypsodonty (100 Hp/DT; Hp localities (IVAU), in are Sari approximate Çay (studied while = order in the of the height from old DT entoconid, of width) = the the M3 in in while (studied Pasalar young: IPS), the IPS). dont lineages. F of the Sansan The Sansan is A Aragonian. (Sen, date Van der 1997) for (Krijgsman Made low in MN 6 and in placed short be may the palaeomagnetic in various interpreted of boundary the zone section in ways. G1/G2 zones 1994, 1996) and the correlations by al., et (1996a) older slightly ages to for suggest and than Pasalar and close 12.5 to Qandir Ma, respec- tively. ‘Gazella present in to from the citation of prior MN to described odon 8. are The remains Bunolistriodon as splendens; fossils Protragoceros, there reworked is no from der (Van defi- a appeared Neudorf-Sandberg, to reason have to re- rise given poor for too likely lockharti, der (Van have belong assume to Listri- that these Made, 1996a). Trends in incisor width and canine size and ogy of MN 8; typical may are and the genus is is Tethytragus, to not that Neudorf-Sandberg assignment nite referred now it is found in late MN 6 and in MN7. The Europe mains stehlini’, in Klein Hadersdorf, but is morphol- data from Mottl, Made, 1996a; using 1957) of Listriodon suggest that: — and — age — Klein Hadersdorf is of about the Arroyo St del Val IV, i.e. is Stephan as or Neudorf-Sandberg but closer 5. in Bivariate plot of length (DAP; mm) of the Dot = P3 of Conohyus and Conohyus (IPUW). Cross = simorrensis Conohyus mm) hyus = from Göriach ebroensis from from Parachleuastochoerus (MGL, UCBL, heimensis from Klein simorrensis NMB). (DT; do Pinheiro Asterisks Pasalar C. = simor- Cono- (GML). Triangles steinheimensis Inverted = from triangles Steinheim (SMNS, NMB). = to is oc oc same age as 12.5 Ma; Quirze and of the (oc about = old the same collections); same age as between 12.5 and 11 (i.e. or Ma, the latter date. in Hadersdorf from crosses (SLJG, NMW). Fonte width Parachleua-stochoerus. (PDTFAU, MTA, PIMUZ). Oblique rensis vs to older than San older than La Grive Grive younger than La Fig. close La Grive P. stein- Following hyus Thenius simorrensis (1952), Rabeder (1978) cited Cono- from Klein Hadersdorf. steinheimensis However, it has been shown that Para-chleuastochoerus steinheimensis Conohyus actually is no subspecies of simorrensis, but (Chen Guanfang, Conohyus (crosses different a reduced in Fig. species 1984; Fortelius premolar 5) to et size C. Parachleuastochoerus has still in a al., different from C. ebroensis smaller genus 1996). Although simorrensis (asterisks), premolars (trian- 32 gles). dorf The indicates Within Conohyus. C. simorrensis der Increase these Fortelius from order MTA, PIMUZ), Klein At figures that and these do Taucanamo sansaniensis, bly the suid evolved Klein Hadersdorf MN6. The are rate of dorf. The size Le Fousseret small suoids, and (1952) suggest and that author, by (see and but possi- Van der Made, observation is correct, castellensis T. (MN sansaniensis and 8) lineage late et older than geographic is El al. late in be in MN7+8, Qandir one between age 1 over the (G. ( G. but it is Ma. Qandir al., MN more a This and is realistic than the of one (19%). is present Grive; in St Stephan and in the old these localities The Dryopithecus are as old stratigraphic and as and Gryphopithecus The lower levels of Hostalets (including younger than Sant Can Mata) Quirze (Agustf et is was et Llobateres al. is sequence (range MN placed and rynochoerus meini aff. lissiensis are cise correlation. The use of the in of the Propotamochoerus (Ginsburg, prior Hipparion is locality we fossils such list a as to younger than correlated did on not most of succeed in which the cita- with Can Rudabanya of shared supposedly Aceratherium (MN6-11/12), naui not Eomyops entry used Litho- the Ara- just but not present (MN incisivum al. 8-9/10), to (1984) MN 9- Listriodon Rudabanya), useful of Cricetulodon et at catalaunicus particularly by Agusti and Ko- Myoglis Glirulus for such a pre- subdivide MN 9, and the evolution suid Parachleuastochoerus huenermanni into crusafonti during the the later part of the Crictulodon following sequence: Hostalets, Can Llobateres and La Tarumba 1990a). in appeared palaeochoerus (MN5-10), originally units. high 9-12), Hipparion primigenium (range splendens (MN 6-9, are (PDTFAU, locality (1996) Dorcatherium 11), localities this the taxa Haders- from the basis of However, taxa. Conohyus Pasalar different as palaeochoerus on The an Le in MN 8, when MN 7 placed the MN 7+8 localities. However, the P. and for Klein lineage. treated cited species and 6) Pinheiro (GML). locality local and indicates that gives overlapped. be This tion is based. that the weinfurteri) darwini). Neudorf-Sandberg. to of the in and the 6 Vallecas (MNCN), still were palaeochoerus 1971). de St Gaudens 8 stratigraphically, gonian MN 6) suggest MN (early Listriodon on late in Fonte do (MPZ), 1984). and Data Puente finding and Considering possibility exists, species another ranges of assumed Buste 7). simorrensis-ebroensis T. late in MN6 and Pasalar is earlier might speculation, Andrews Dryopithecus are (MNHN), Hadersdorf (Fig. between Pasalar position a molars in the Conohyus late MN 7+8 age. A. pygmaeus evolution, collections from La or a difference Neudorf-Sandberg by 1996). grandaeuvus If this the localities have a (MN corroborate Agustf Neudorf-Sandberg course Fousseret in MN 7. or Neudorf-Sandberg older increased form (MN 8-9) (Van Göriach (SLJG, NMW, IGGML, NMB), Thenius stated as into A. grandaevus replaced realistic level (IPUW), two are evolutive the first and second young: castellensis Albanohyus this would corroborate in in Hadersdorf Taucanamo 1996b, for systematics). MN 6 to of the molars from Klein represent represent Taucanamo pygmaeum not palaeochoerid al., et mm) descriptions by the (MN 7) in old there Neudorf-Sandberg, the fossils C. ebroensis to in length (DAP; approximate suid molar size Conohyus, (MN 5-7) from Klein Haders- premolar that Made, 1989, 1998; 6. Fig. size of the large (dot) (Fig. 7; Can P. zone Ponsic I, Van der Made, 33 Fig. 7. in Decrease La Tarumba The this Ponsic than younger manni P. to of faunal samples Van The being der Made, transition be to seems of MN part known. of 10 marked are important an that these caused changes a and in suoid et di- al., 1994). short period of evolution in Parachleuastochoerus. An alternative explanation is with P. could be more P. who and material fontani assign antiquus, we area younger D. Can Ponsic think. than more assign localities Ponsic It is to and D. to Sinap like D. laietanus has the large species from Can localities 1992a), e/ a/., of Llo- laietanus and (Ribot Eppelsheim (Fortelius locality (first locality one older suid (last of interest that fossils crusafonti (e.g. Begun, it also Middle the record, implying that Can and Can Llobateres recognise in from or gap in the than crusafonti) Dryopithecus bateres a time between huenermanni) authors ers a by important decrease It is with clearly by important changes der Made, 1990a, b; Fortelius there huener- no Vallesian is versity (Van possible P. abrupt, The and 1998) called the 'mid-Vallesian crisis' of the effects is rapid that and the MN 9-10 transition caused probably in climate. This is one The Parachleuastochoerus huenermanni-crusafonti lineage. Cricetulodon Rudabanya suggests at 7; (Fig. important changes changes, of the than Can Llobateres 1 and close in Hostalets. and the earlier M3 Wissberg (NMM), and huenermanni crusafonti intermediate period P. is older Can of the young: El Firal (MGB), Rudabánya (HGSB), Can Ponsic I, localities Can are Llobateres in and (IPS). al., 1996, fig. 5) locality to age et mm) order from old to of presence (Agusti in length (DAP; approximate to the al., is major. In Made & replaced 1; this Mein 1994). al. et absence and in followed Mein 11. common locality major to tooth presence be MN 9 from and it is that possibly in by MN 9 based Andrews and occurrence al., a on the which (1983) de- and believed Salmendingen (last Sal- his data of Anchitherium and yielded al., of that genus). possible Microstonyx of the 1996), suggestive 10-12 elements in the collection from There not are several clear where (Abusch-Siewert, assume et Dipoides problematicus, et (Fortelius of MN Salmendingen. area is in the Turolian. Abusch-Siewert However, the 'locality' to seems (Fortelius locality der (Van major (Kostopoulos, (1986) Salmendingen scribed Anchitherium from the 10 this Turkey subsequently Melchingen placed MN M. Microstonyx MN same moment yielded presence of the castorid is in place Graecopithecus (1986), at 1983). fissure the old It fillings in collections seems more hominoid material the prudent from comes the come to older associations, i.e. from MN 9. This leaves Europe 1996). Dryopithecus 1996). the at locality in while oth- This case (1996), mendingen the took Moya Sola, 1989) The oldest 1996). Nikiti its smaller relative by this Europe have been the D. Hippopotamodon et species as the early went crisis and there is as suggested by latest MN no record 10 (La extinct proof Mein of Dryopithecus Tarumba, during the in II); mid-Vallesian that it extended (1986) Polinya and Andrews into MN et al. 11, (19%). 34 THE DISPERSAL EUROPE OF DRYOPITHECINES INTO The next MN Africa times, Aragonian In and Arabia nected and the Balkan and Anatolia formed nent, that tral was Europe continent faunal in seas, eustatic sea with occurred East these shallow occurred Steininger, contact exchange Middle the & (Rogl was connected always not the between At the der (Van Made, the to two steps through Europe ing periods al. level low. sea and ages mals that Miller Subconti- Five of such and Early from Af- place in et al. climate. cycles, each (1996) with cyclical to mam- level sea lows should be simultaneous in the different continents. persal events on eustatic sea the continents level lows correspond given by Haq as intercontinental scheme of correlations the basis of suoid and bovid used to et to each al. correlate other and (1987). to This scheme magnetic sections in the al., 1994, 1996), For instance, boundary (then et Krijgsman tion in the suoid on new der correlations Made, of the based dispersals 1996a) are only developed der on Made, was level of cycles Haq corresponding study of the area very well. D/E MN boundary) palaeomagnetic a 4/5 by sec- Made, with et and al.'s the cycles hundreds of thou- some sands of years apart and both differ 1992b) Haq some 3 Ma with pre- vious estimates. In this 1995, 1996a, 1997b, 1999a), change between Africa ago; this does not Set origin and Ilia, within MN entered the or during dispersals (Van the first Eurasia the major took have involved (beginning next faunal 21 the Engelswies and ex- Ma zone possibility & at Qiu, 1995). this is The event boundary a E wave of Pasalar belong in cycle this had southeast Ma possible that already for There records record ous of Asian some der (Van of Asian(?) Asian virtually mammal four entered as Dryopithecus (La have and Grive oc, entered St entered ori- Anatolia record of and large Rotem ba- et al., 1987) bovid The zone primitive Tethytragus with a with previ- the bovid Turcoceros, Africa, the and deer Anatolian origin in to in western and Europe Made, been a number of and the deer was central Dicroce- reduced disappeared have of furcatus, Euprox der Made, 1993, 1994, Around this time, extinct Crocodiles der boundary 6). Albanohyus, Europe (Van seem (Van al., 1994, 1996) to the suid Parachleuastochoerus, diversity there the to belongs origin lower European went species. and the the suid Hyotherium tragulid to one Europe and 1997b, 1999a). e.g. and rus, no the end of MN 1999a), lineages Protrago- of African Fossils from the in Anatolia, origin, origin 1996a, b, the more Not later than next. time in (TB2.6 cycle, to southeast Made, still species long a is in Fort Ternan, or or closer are Qandir primate (Tchernov Hispanomeryx previous their and Ple- age. Set V, close bovoid The bovids of African Griphopithecus 12.5 Ma Around and again have one from cycle, though they a G 5) MN Cricetodon), the earlier part of the be of this lower entered Africa. Fort Ternan and 14 Ma. may into and clear whether include finds rodent (Conohyus) sin and moment, cycle, that Europe to to Europe. leakeyi A. Chinese (TB2.5 or Israel and within IV, (the mammals older than in ago not lived between by Afropithecus is cycle, Van der see this at assess (Sanitherium). this to placed of this level relationship It Anatolia. It is gin to event Set Gentrytragus end of it. this 14 Anatolia Indian Subcontinent and a typical (Africa; European migrants areas no with Dabtiyah should be (the pliopithecids Pliopithecus siopliopithecus), cerus virtually investigation. and zone of these three the dispersal about at in Africa origin of difficult that single a or Anatolia and hominid, Platodontopithecus, Eurasia merits further of African Dionysopithecus which is possibility Griphopithecus but the in Ad rec- cycle the basis of the presence of the suid on The 1996a). in the avifauna cycle, entered China cycle (Qiu Made, primates. 4), Dionysopithecus may have der place of TB2.3 Indian subcontinent. Platodontopithecus moment, and seem to About 16.5 Ma ago C, Made, Europe; model of faunal of locality and which is found also in Maboko palaeo- (Krijgsman of the age ages and the estimates based der (Van An (1987). 1999a, b) and zone on area al. correspond of the the at Aragonian type correlation of mammal (Van its but the results (1994), dates of the (Van Aragonian type estimates placed al. sea with Dis- in different continents events the eustatic developed independently was et dispersal et evolution 1992b, 1993, 1994, 1996a, 1997a, b, to was a corrected the of terrestrial eustatic by starting cycles Dispersals allowed for fluctua- slightly level sea level There is this age Illb, to have reached to seems leakyi (= Heliopithecus) in Faunal Set Illb, brought sea of Bunolistriodon akatikubas, one or level. The Europe. Afropithecus represent dispersals mammals Set this During events. the first hominoid large Middle Miocene have taken sea eustatic global are Indian studied eustatic (1987) related in changes exchange Subcontinent). to named and dated the tions, of low the Turkish-Balkan subcontinent dur- of low eustatic et by minus Balkan Hominoid expected are In area. of southeast little one previous D, zone makes it difficult Europe (the Engelswies hominoid). record (Europe in the 1996a). rica Haq Indian recognised are cen- separated faunal moments Africa-Arabia, Asia minus the events were during periods nent, Anatolia-Balkan and Eurasia and Himalayan masses such and The Indian Sub- 1983). that became land levels. subconti- a western boundary possible dispersal the anterior con- Asia, but apparently through land to still were million after the one This short time interval 5). ognise but event was Ma ago, lower cycle (15.5 from from central important changes 1992a, 1993; Fortelius et well. was present Gaudens, Europe as around 12.5 Ma. However, in St part the Europe prior Stephan) of the and faunal Aragonian to 11 may Ma well exchange hominoid rec- 35 ord is area sibly cal very in poor is several it has other in Europe for Germany). in Spain If this is the Stratigraphy et very poor the record areas southern (Fig. 9). ecological environments may have arrived 8. a Similarly, vourable basin, for partially reasons MN5-7. Fig. The Europe. Valles-Penedes is richest in hominoid localities in case, reasons, but fossil record for this that might Alternatively, in for is its arrival had (e.g. Styrian fa- Dryopithecus seems to of European hominoid localities, al., 1991), and in have the later part of MN selected African and Arabian 7+8 coincide the oldest localities an ridae range poor with increase in end of MN 7+8, geologi- in the period Dryopithecus the which pos- Europe, (Daams as & hominoid does 12.5 Ma. absence in the to areas ecological by large parts of Spain Europe as in Europe with a 1988). If the the Engelswies this genus faunal exchange part of the the case of Dryopithecus, may have been due to of both hominoids its the lack favourable environment, preferences at the distribution of Casto- represent Griphopithecus, Like western of record in in Freudenthal, not may have entered around humidity indicated are though likely have been different. Sivapithecus localities in (position according Pickford, 1986; to the Indian Subcontinent (data Van der from Kappelmann Made, 1996a). 36 Si- The 12.5 Ma dispersal is also noted in the event Indian der Made, (Van 9. Fig. There are differences on the reconstruction L = La Grive, NS The arrows Agustf et al. 15.5 Ma who (1996), Dryopithecus MN 12.5 Ma there is have also 5-6 for been later of that persals) of much shorter were tiquus, in to confirm and the date of the are this is dispersals few of Si- MN geographical 9 10 tapirs or and 9, hyraxes to 7+8 (but al., close have habitat continuous geographical lineages Ankarapithecus to assumed now not Anatolian branch and it This but is central Europe, Stephan. Many and four by and size are demonstrate a distribution in favour of not how parallel pendently of to a area was al., on southeast from period some starting time into to at MN 10, the MN MN early 9-10 10. The and et European Dryopithecus its way may have into this to but is Dryopithecus to an western Ankara- moved inde- area. The mid-Vallesian crisis occurred either tion from MN 9 supposed 1996), alternatively, lineage Dryopithecus et Sivapithecus (Alpagut evolved though pithecus -Graecopithecus of to this in to St (e.g. clear not related that passed through In have fluctuated and appears to Sinap (MN 9) suggestive barriers. distribu- Hadersdorf, = geographic events are is rather dispersed an- their It be to and Hippopotamodon used been not from for and murids and in MN recognised morphology Sivapithecus (Andrews 1996). ecological SS al. if this is what occurred. al., show Klein Quirze, et impact should have evolved and maintained themselves, early Europe = their overlapping temporal been dispersal no in with separation. nearly a Si- discussion in main text). and Graecopithecus, even K Mata, Cahuzac have likely very San = Their 1996). and in and with that of the hominoids. have ranges et separation and the of Can Dryopithecus geographic Andrews which see largely long, and Schizochoerus. The seems MN and Steininger (1983) Gaudens, SQ too palaeochoerus Hipparion Microstonyx major species be related al. et of & inclusive Saint = have coincided rather Rögl much stasis, mammals SG Pasalar, dis- Ma pe- Agusti = when still later in MN tion of the Dryopithecus assumed there must Sivapithecus by that seen, the entry stasis 8, Propotamochoerus Europe, first therefore of date of have we so 15.5 Ma. The 5 is al. et period. Subsequent MN As locality, not of dates for the rather than fact fossils or old and P (Kappelman Dryopithecus have been coeval. stratigraphy, Hostalets, = possible dispersal during appearance use Ma) independently, Dryopithecus the did boundary. Whether a Ves), outside Steininger first 12.5 Ma. The morphological Dryopithecus there than age. from apart who Dryopithecus 12.5 Ma for (1996) but MN 6 and dispersed to the (16.5-15.2 MN6-7 dispersed is discuss Europe, the Nova after of dispersals seem to and marine H The 1991). reconstruction of continental common ancestor first refer They not boundary MN 6 no vapithecus riod in that the Sivapethecus ago. did correlation palaeogeography. Localities: Ç = Çandir, indicate the dispersal during and in opinion Neudorf-Sandberg(Dvinska (1996) thought Dryopithecus Africa = of the of al., vapethecus Dispersal of Dryopithecinae into Europe; palaeogeographical (1992). the et 12.5 Ma ago, the hominoid 1996a). entered the Indian Subcontinent vapithecus Subcontinent with the entry of Helicoportax and Gazella in MN 10 boundary composition at or the transiin and of the a short lasting bovid 37 faunas in marked by other Spain of parts changed the to Old der Made, (Van diversity World related towards the to it 1988); but Europe, der (Van a The is is 1988, of murids as that Himalayas (Van Dam, Abusch-Siewert, is 1997). have we claims of Turolian above, seen (MN 11) upheld and the dryopithecids mainland on Europe be cannot that seems they while crisis, extinct went the mid-Vallesian during survived Graecopithecus in southeast Europe. M. tion Suoidea tend be to hominoid localities localities shown from in 8: Fig. and for of correlating of stratigraphic position of means the and Indian is Griphopithecus considerable a selection of a Subcontinent and Dryopithecus coexisted probably a The (Fig. 3). Africa time in central events these of known events into dispersals related are Europe The chronology (Figs 8, 9). tend presented here, as published dates from nian type persal events About into 15.5 rise given related not and not to, ago the hominoid arrived later than sea first in with the the Arago- it level changes. hominoid moved have may been, or might If this hominoid Griphopithecus. Griphopithecus, to phopithecus dated eustatic 16.5 Ma This Europe. have and well sections seems likely that was Gri- later than 14 Ma ago in Anatolia not 12.5 Ma ago in entered sal within 12.5 Ma Europe Europe Europe. Dryopithecus ago, though Harrison, M. W. E. its 'Bioeventos Asian Fahlbusch & H.W. Eurasian Spain). Mittmann Sinap R.L. 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