For Yous Data - Skeleton Of Extinct Rhinoceros Species Discovered Inward Spain

Researchers from the Quaternary Research Group (GRQ-SERP) of the University of Barcelona (UB) accept discovered inwards Castelldefels a rhinoceros skeleton unopen to 160,000 years old, belonging to an extinct species, Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis, which would accept been like to the electrical flow African dark rhinoceros. The regain took house inwards the so-called Rhinoceros cave, a site where 2 skeletons of this brute species had already been industrial plant life past times 2015.

Skeleton of the rhinoceros discovered inwards Castelldefels [Credit: Universitat de Barcelona]

The remains include the 2 front end extremities of the animal, the ribs, business office of the spine as well as the skull amongst the both jaws. Researchers assume that the brute in all likelihood cruel accidentally into the Rhinoceros cave, where it died when trapped. The teeth would dot that it was a immature specimen, virtually 7 years old, every bit it withal has unopen to of its milk teeth.

The Rhinoceros cave is an archaeological site amongst a long chronological sequence, ranging from 200,000 to 80,000 years old. In the Mediterranean basin at that spot are really few sites from this menstruation amongst such a consummate stratigraphic sequence. In the deposit at that spot is a large quantity of faunal remains inwards an fantabulous state of preservation. In 2012, a skeleton of an elephant calf was discovered, as well as inwards 2015, 2 skeletons of immature rhinoceroses were also found. Apparently, the cave was every bit a natural trap for many dissimilar types of animals, particularly the younger, inexperienced creatures that cruel into it. Several lithic remains accept also been recovered at this site.

The cavity is currently transected vertically due to the mining activity of the ca n'Aymerich quarry inwards Castelldefels. The extraction of limestone has greatly disfigured the master terrain as well as destroyed most of the cave, every bit good every bit the master entrance. For this reason, the cavity is at i time accessible via a scaffold that allows archaeological function to endure carried out.

The remains volition endure removed from the cave this summertime as well as volition thus endure studied past times researchers. Castelldefels Town Council plans to organise an exhibition inwards the municipality on the site of the cave inwards which business office of the skeletons industrial plant life inwards the archaeological excavations volition endure displayed.

The archaeological excavations are business office of the projection "Climate alter during the Upper Pleistocene on the key Catalan coast as well as the touching on Neanderthal populations as well as anatomically modern humans", carried out past times the Quaternary Research Group (GRQ-SERP) of the University of Barcelona, headed past times researchers Joan Daura (University of Barcelona) as well as Montserrat Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid). The excavations are financed past times the Castelldefels Town Council as well as the Archaeology as well as Paleontology Service of the Generalitat de Cataluña.

Source: La Vanguardia [July 21, 2018]


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