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The earliest European badger (Meles meles), from the Late Villafranchian site of Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, SE Iberian Peninsula) |
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| Authors: | Joan Madurell-Malapeira Sergio Ros-Montoya Isidro Toro |
| Institution: | a Institut Català de Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICP, Campus de la UAB s/n, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain b ICREA, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social IPHES, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Pl. Imperial Tarraco 1, 43005 Tarragona, Spain c Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontología, 18858 Orce, Spain d Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Granada, Carrera del Darro, no. 41-43, 18010 Granada, Spain e Departamento de Ecología y Geología (Área de Paleontología), Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071 Málaga, Spain |
| Abstract: | Paleontological and molecular data suggest that the divergence of the European and Asian badgers (Meles meles and Meles leucurus, respectively) from their ancestor Meles thorali might have taken place in the Middle to Late Villafranchian boundary (ca. 1.8 Ma). However, the available record of Late Villafrachian European badgers is scanty and poorly known, and this hypothesis needs more paleontological data in order to be tested. The badger hemimandible from the Iberian locality of Fuente Nueva 3, a locality placed in the beginning of the Late Villafranchian, supports the idea of an early divergence between European and Asian badgers. |
| Keywords: | Carnivora Mustelidae Meles Late Villafrachian Orce Europe |
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