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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106123
	A cave lion (Panthera spelaea) skeleton from Torca del León (NW Iberia): Micromammals indicate a temperate and forest environment corresponding to GI-11 (MIS 3)
	Álvarez-Lao D.J.; Álvarez-Vena A.; Ballesteros D.; García N.; Laplana C.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	229
英文摘要	The Torca del León site (Asturias, NW Spain), discovered in 2014, provided an interesting fossil assemblage including a P. spelaea partial skeleton and a rich micro-mammal community with palaeoenvironmental significance. The bone accumulation was formed in a karstic cave that acted as a natural trap, as indicated by the geomorphology of the cavity (connected to a 16 m deep shaft) and the lack of signs of human or carnivore activity on the bones. The large-mammal assemblage is composed of carnivores, of which the most striking is the partial skeleton of the cave lion, an exceptional find for this region, which allowed a detailed comparative study. Its skull and teeth retained features of systematic relevance, which agree with its ascription to P. spelaea. Sexing of the specimen points to it possibly being from a male, whose body weight was estimated at 360 kg. Other identified large mammals in the site include P. pardus and Canis lupus. The rich small mammal assemblage, comprising 14 taxa, allowed inferring that the environment during site formation corresponded to a mature forest developed under humid and temperate conditions, located at just 15 km from the glacial fronts of the Cantabrian Mountains. AMS dating yielded 43.0 ± 0.5 cal ka BP, coinciding with Greenland Interstadial GI-11, a warming event poorly known in NW Iberia, coeval with the onset of the regional glacial retreat occurred after the local glacial maximum of ∼45 ka. This episode is also coeval with the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Northwestern Iberia. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	GI-11; Late pleistocene; MIS 3; Paleoclimatology; Paleoenvironment; Paleontology; Panthera spelaea; Small mammals; Western Europe
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Bone; Caves; Forestry; Glacial geology; Musculoskeletal system; Late Pleistocene; Paleo-environment; Paleoclimatology; Paleontology; Panthera; Small mammals; Western Europe; Mammals; bone; carnivore; felid; fossil assemblage; geomorphology; karst; marine isotope stage; paleoclimate; paleoenvironment; paleontology; Pleistocene; skeleton; small mammal; temperate environment; Arctic; Asturias; Cantabrian Mountains; Greenland; Iberian Peninsula; Spain; Canis lupus; Mammalia; Panthera; Panthera pardus
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151624
作者单位	Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Jesús Arias de Velasco s/n., Oviedo, E-33005, Spain; UMR 6266 IDEES, Université of Rouen-Normandie/CNRSMont Saint-Aignan CEDEX, France; Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Grupo Ecosistemas Cuaternarios. F. C. Geológicas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) C/Jose Antonio Novais, Madrid, 28040, Spain; Centro (UCM-ISCIII) de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Avda. Monforte de Lemos 5, Pabellón 14, Madrid, 28029, Spain; Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid, Plaza de las Bernardas s/n, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 28801, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Álvarez-Lao D.J.,Álvarez-Vena A.,Ballesteros D.,et al. A cave lion (Panthera spelaea) skeleton from Torca del León (NW Iberia): Micromammals indicate a temperate and forest environment corresponding to GI-11 (MIS 3)[J],2020,229.
APA	Álvarez-Lao D.J.,Álvarez-Vena A.,Ballesteros D.,García N.,&Laplana C..(2020).A cave lion (Panthera spelaea) skeleton from Torca del León (NW Iberia): Micromammals indicate a temperate and forest environment corresponding to GI-11 (MIS 3).Quaternary Science Reviews,229.
MLA	Álvarez-Lao D.J.,et al."A cave lion (Panthera spelaea) skeleton from Torca del León (NW Iberia): Micromammals indicate a temperate and forest environment corresponding to GI-11 (MIS 3)".Quaternary Science Reviews 229(2020).