Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the stratigraphic unit Xb of El Salt (Middle Palaeolithic; Alcoy, Spain)palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic implications

  1. Rafael Marquina 1
  2. Ana Fagoaga 1
  3. Vicente Crespo 1
  4. Francisco Ruiz Sánchez 1
  5. Salvador Bailon 2
  6. Cristo Hernández 3
  7. Bertila Galván 3
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

  2. 2 Sorbonne Universités
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    Sorbonne Universités

    París, Francia

    ROR https://ror.org/02en5vm52

  3. 3 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Journal:
Spanish journal of palaeontology

ISSN: 2255-0550

Year of publication: 2017

Volume: 32

Issue: 2

Pages: 291-312

Type: Article

More publications in: Spanish journal of palaeontology

Funding information

The present work was supported by the Sociedad Española de Paleontología (SEP) grant. Ayuda a la Investigación de la SEP 2015-2016 003 “La herpetofauna fósil como herramienta para la reconstrucción paleoclimática: el caso de El Salt (nivel Xb, Paleolítico medio; Alcoy, Alicante)”. The authors are grateful to Dr. Alfred Sanchis and Dra. Marta Calvo Revuelta who allow us to consult the osteological material for comparion from the amphibian and reptiles collections of the Gabinet de Fauna Quaternària of the Museu de Prehistòria de València and Colección de Herpetología of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), respectively. Also, we would like to thank El Salt excavation team for the help with the excavation, sieving and washing of sediments. Editor Dr. Matias Reolid (Universidad de Jaén) and reviewers Dr. Hugues-Alexandre Blain (IPHES, Tarragona) and Dr. Zoltan Szentesi (Hungarian Natural History Museum) improved this manuscript by their comments. We are grateful to Arturo Gamonal (UV) for this help with the English version and Javier Sáinz Martínez (Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre) for his support with GIS.