Sara G Arranz, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Indrė Žliobaitė, Juan Abella, Chiara Angelone, Beatriz Azanza, Raymond Bernor, Omar Cirilli, Daniel DeMiguel, Marc Furió, Luca Pandolfi, Josep M Robles, Israel M Sánchez, Lars W van den Hoek Ostende, David M Alba
Hispanopithecus laietanus from the Late Miocene (9.8 Ma) of Can Llobateres 1 (CLL1; Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) represents one of the latest occurrences of fossil apes in Western mainland Europe, where they are last recorded at ∼9.5 Ma. The paleoenvironment of CLL1 is thus relevant for understanding the extinction of European hominoids. To refine paleoenvironmental inferences for CLL1, we apply ecometric models based on functional crown type (FCT) variables-a scoring scheme devised to capture macroscopic functional traits of occlusal shape and wear surfaces of herbivorous large mammal molars...
October 17, 2023: Journal of Human Evolution