La Roma Explained

La Roma is a Miocene fossil site in the Teruel Province of Spain.^[1]

A micropaleontological analysis of the digestion and diet of hyenas of the latter part of the Miocene age was made possible from a large sample of coprolite in the La Roma 2 site.^[2] A species of Hipparion from the later Vallesian was found at La Roma 2.^[1]

Bones of the rhinoceros Dicerorhinus schleiemacheri in La Roma 2 and Masia del Barbo in the Teruel region were exceptionally larger than the upper range for the species as specified by Guérin (1980).^[3]

Excavation of two sites assigned to MN 10 contained the youngest example of the Semigenneta (Viverridae) and the oldest Ursidae (bear) genus Indarctos.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Pesquero . MD . Alberdi . MT . Alcalá . L . New Species of Hipparion from La Roma 2 (Late Vallesian; Tertuel, Spain): A Study of the Morphological and Biometric Variability of Hipparion primigenium . Journal of Paleontology . March 2006 . 80 . 2 . 343–356 . 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)080[0343:NSOHFL]2.0.CO;2 . 4095130. 10261/130455 . free .
2. Pesqueroa . MD . Salesa . MJ . Espíleza . E . Mampel . L . Siliceo, G . Alcalá, L . An exceptionally rich hyaena coprolites concentration in the Late Miocene mammal fossil site of La Roma 2 (Teruel, Spain): Taphonomical and palaeoenvironmental inferences . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . 311 . 1–2 . October 2011 . 30–37 . 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.07.013.
3. Cerdeño . E . Spanish Neogene Rhinoceroses . Palaeontology . 1992 . 35 . 2 . 297–308 .
4. Alcalá . L . van Dam . J . Luque . L . Montoya . P . Abella, J . Nuevos mamíferos vallesienses en Masía de La Roma (Cuenca de Teruel) . Geogaceta . 37 . 2005 . 199–202 . 0213-683X . Spanish, English.