Úrsidos, hiénidos y félidos del Pleistoceno inferior de Cueva Victoria (Cartagena, Múrcia)

MADURELL-MALAPEIRA, JOAN; MORALES, JORGE; VINUESA, VICTOR; BOSCAINI, ALBERTO

MASTIA: Revista del Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Cartagena

Ayuntamiento de Cartagena: Museo Arqueológico Municipal "Enrique Escudero de Castro"

Año: 2014 p. 401 - 432

1579-3303

In this paper we review the collection of fossil carnivores from the late Early Pleistocene site of Cueva Victoria (south-eastern Iberian Peninsula) including the families Ursidae, Hyaenidae and Felidae. The studied material includes the species Ursus deningeri, Pachycrocuta brevirostris, Homotherium latidens, Megantereon sp., Panthera gombaszoegensis, Puma pardoides and Lynx pardinus. The former species are characteristic of the late Early Pleistocene assemblages of the Mediterranean Europe corresponding to the Epivillafranchian biochron with an approximate age of 1.1-0.78 Ma. Taking into account the known first and last appearances of the identified species the chronology of the site can be restricted to ca. 1.0 Ma.