A new species of Eomellivora from the latest Aragonian of Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)
Alba, David M.. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Robles Gimenez, Josep Maria (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Valenciano Vaquero, Alberto (Universidad de Zaragoza. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra)
Abella, Juan (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	Eomellivora is a large-bodied mellivorine mustelid genus widely distributed throughout Eurasia and North America during the late Miocene (MN9-MN13). Here, we report the oldest Eurasian material of Eomellivora based on a palate and two mandibular fragments from ACM/PTA-A2, a pre-Vallesian (11. 21 Ma; latest MN7+8) locality of Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) that slightly predates the first appearance datum of Hippotherium by ~30 kyr. The described material differs from Hoplictis helbingi - another large mustelid recorded within the same basin in the roughly coeval site of Castell de Barberà (~11. 2, earliest MN9) - and more closely resembles Eomellivora spp. Despite closer resemblances in both size and dental shape with the Vallesian (MN9-MN10) species Eomellivora piveteaui, the ACM material differs in possessing multiple features that may be considered plesiomorphic. A new species, Eomellivora moralesi sp. nov. , is thus erected based on the described material. A cladistic analysis confirms that the new species occupies a basal-most position within the Eomellivora clade, in agreement with its older age and more plesiomorphic morphology.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación CGL2017-82654-P Agencia Estatal de Investigación CGL2016-76431-P Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación FJC2018-036669-I Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad RYC-2013-12470 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-116 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/BP 00223
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Carnivora ; Mustelidae ; Mellivorinae ; Systematics ; Late Miocene ; Spain
Published in:	Historical biology, Vol. 34, Issue 4 (2022) , p. 694-703, ISSN 1029-2381

DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1943380

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