Musteloidea (Carnivora, Mammalia) del Mioceno Superior de Venta del Moro (Valencia, España)

P. Montoya; J. Morales; J. Abella

doi:10.3989/egeol.40576.183

Authors

P. Montoya Departament de Geologia, Àrea de Paleontologia, Universitat de València
J. Morales Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
J. Abella Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.40576.183

Keywords:

Mammalia, Carnivora, Musteloidea, Martes, Lutra, Plesiogulo, Promephitis, Venta del Moro, Spain, Upper Miocene

Abstract

The purpose of the present work is to describe the Musteloidea from the Late Miocene locality of Venta del Moro (Valencia, Spain). We have identified the following species: Martes ginsburgi nov. sp., Lutra affinis Gervais, 1859, Plesiogulo monspessulanus Viret, 1939 and Promephitis alexejewi Schlosser, 1924. Besides Plesiogulo monspessulanus which was already described in this locality and in Las Casiones (MN 13, Teruel Basin), we are approaching an unedited Musteloidea assemblage from the Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula. The m1 of Martes ginsburgi nov. sp. is similar in size and morphology to the Asian species of the genus, M. anderssoni and M. zdanskyi, but it differs in having a very wide M1 with a developed lingual platform. The presence of Lutra affinis is the third register of this species in the fossil record, since it was only previously known from the Pliocene of Montpellier (France) and the terminal Miocene of Maramena (Greece). Promephitis alexejewi is the first appearance of this species in Europe, which has been only registered until now in several localities of Mongolia and China. It differs from the rest of Promephitis species in the possession of a narrower m1, with a very sectorial trigonid.

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