Decouverte de deux nouveaux gisements de poissons fossiles messiniens dans le bassin de Nijar-Carboneras (Andalousie Orientale): Signification paleoecologique et implications paleogeographiques

G. de la Chapelle; J. Gaudant

doi:10.3989/egeol.87433-4598

Decouverte de deux nouveaux gisements de poissons fossiles messiniens dans le bassin de Nijar-Carboneras (Andalousie Orientale): Signification paleoecologique et implications paleogeographiques

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G. de la Chapelle Institut géologique Albert de Lapparent
J. Gaudant

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https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.87433-4598

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Messinian, Lagoonal environment, Marine environment, Palaeoecology, Palaeogeography, Fishes, Teleosts

Abstract

Two new fossil fish-Iocalities are reported from the Messinian of the Nijar-Carboneras basin (South Spain). That of Cortijo Ruil, South-West of Nijar, seems to take part in the evaporitic Messinian. It yields a marine, poorly diversified, fish-fauna which characterizes a shallow deposit sedimented relatively near the sea-shore. However, the occurrence of a Myctophid: Lampanyctus licatae (Sauvage) and of a Gonostomatid: Maurolicus muelleri (Gmelin) demonstrates that the Nijar-Carboneras basin was widely open to the sea, the depth of which probably sensibly exceeded 2.000 m. The post-evaporitic locality of Rambla de las Colmenas, westward of Gafares, has provided the species Aphanius crassicaudus (Agassiz), which characterizes the lagoonal Messinian environments of the Mediterranean area.

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1987-08-30

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de la Chapelle, G., & Gaudant, J. (1987). Decouverte de deux nouveaux gisements de poissons fossiles messiniens dans le bassin de Nijar-Carboneras (Andalousie Orientale): Signification paleoecologique et implications paleogeographiques. Estudios Geológicos, 43(3-4), 279–297. https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.87433-4598

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Vol. 43 No. 3-4 (1987)

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