000069464 001__ 69464 000069464 005__ 20210121114528.0 000069464 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.059 000069464 0248_ $$2sideral$$a92748 000069464 037__ $$aART-2015-92748 000069464 041__ $$aeng 000069464 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-5125-9651$$aCuenca-Bescós, Gloria$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000069464 245__ $$aComparing two different Early Pleistocene microfaunal sequences from the caves of Atapuerca, Sima del Elefante and Gran Dolina (Spain): Biochronological implications and significance of the Jaramillo subchron 000069464 260__ $$c2015 000069464 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000069464 5203_ $$aNo ideal method can be used alone to provide an accurate and irrefutable chronology for dating European Early Pleistocene localities. The solution lies in the combination of different, but complementary, approaches for complementing their chronological framework. In that regard, the results of the present study show that biochronology may be a useful additional tool to further refine the chronology of these localities, by providing not only relative chronological information between the sites, but also giving some important indications about a younger or older Jaramillo age.Our study presents the revised faunal list of each Early Pleistocene levels from the localities of Gran Dolina (TD) and Sima del Elefante (TE), in Atapuerca. Both localities have very likely the richest associations of small mammal species in the Quaternary of Europe. Perhaps the most striking observation is the lack of similarities between the assemblages from each site, which can only be explained by a chronological gap between them. Although the Jaramillo subchron has not been directly identified at Atapuerca, the existing chronostratigraphical framework combined with similarities of the faunal assemblages between Gran Dolina and Vallparadís indicate with some confidence that Sima del Elefante levels are older than the Jaramillo subchron. Consequently, the Early Pleistocene levels of both Atapuerca sites TE and TD are the only sequence from Spain that allows the study of a continuous stratigraphic succession of the interval around the Jaramillo subchron in terrestrial sequences. The biostratigraphy of the Early Pleistocene from Europe, based mainly in the few isolated localities of the Olduvai-Jaramillo time interval, is reinforced by the faunal succession of the Atapuerca sites. 000069464 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/IUCA-H54$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2012-38434-C03-01$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/CGL2009-12703-C03-01-02-03$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/CGL2006-13532-C03-02$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/629604/EU/Post-glacial recolonisation and Holocene anthropization impact on populations of shrews and hedgehogs from Western Europe inferred from zooarchaeology, historical biogeography and ecological modeling/SMALL_MAM_RECOL 000069464 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000069464 590__ $$a2.067$$b2015 000069464 591__ $$aGEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY$$b67 / 184 = 0.364$$c2015$$dQ2$$eT2 000069464 591__ $$aGEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL$$b24 / 49 = 0.49$$c2015$$dQ2$$eT2 000069464 592__ $$a1.167$$b2015 000069464 593__ $$aEarth-Surface Processes$$c2015$$dQ1 000069464 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000069464 700__ $$aBlain, Hugues Alexandre 000069464 700__ $$aRofes, Juan 000069464 700__ $$aLozano-Fernández, Iván 000069464 700__ $$aLópez-García, Juan Manuel 000069464 700__ $$aDuval, Mathieu 000069464 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-0818-6909$$aGalán, Julia$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000069464 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-2882-6061$$aNúñez-Lahuerta, Carmen$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000069464 7102_ $$12000$$2655$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Ciencias de la Tierra$$cÁrea Paleontología 000069464 773__ $$g389 (2015), 148–158$$pQuat. int.$$tQuaternary International$$x1040-6182 000069464 8564_ $$s1289976$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/69464/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint 000069464 8564_ $$s11838$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/69464/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint 000069464 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:69464$$particulos$$pdriver 000069464 951__ $$a2021-01-21-11:08:38 000069464 980__ $$aARTICLE