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Hundreds of traditional media and internet portals have echoed the international scientific recognition camel footprints found a few years ago at the site of the Hoya de la Sima.
This impact has been following the publication of an article prepared by the director of the Ethnographic Museum Jerome Cayetano Molina Herrero, Félix Pérez Lorente with the University of La Rioja and Pliny Montoya of the University of Valencia, in the prestigious scientific journal Canadian Ichnos and confirm the importance of fingerprints, are unique in the world.
The researchers have named the new camel Paracamelichnum Jumillensis, a genus and species of camelid unknown until now.
An animal similar to the current camel lived in the Late Miocene, about 6 million years.
According to Cayetano said Herrero, Emilio Herrero discovered beside the tracks in 1997, "is an important recognition, global footprints, as unique in the world."
In terms of its impact, Smith said, for example, the Internet, as of today, there are thirteen pages involving more than 140 records in which this information has been published in Spain in mastheads and media largest and the world from Malaysia to Singapore, Russia, United States, Mexico and even an official website of Iran.
"Everything has been following the development of that work and that cost us two years to the magazine Ichnos him out into the light, as it is a scientific and rigorous in content, so they have editors worldwide and whose articles are analyzed and verified by professionals skilled in every area. "
For his part, Juan Guardiola, Councillor of Culture and Tourism of the City of Jumilla has welcomed "as this confirms the importance of these tracks and reservoir."
Guardiola added: "We would hope that, as I have been claiming for years, the Autonomous Community of Murcia, to become aware of the importance of this field and to collaborate to a greater extent, with the City in carrying out actions in this place."
"The Site of the Hoya de la Sima could become a tourist reference, scientific and cultural development of the Region of Murcia in the field of paleontology."
To this end, the mayor of Culture and Tourism that "could continue to make further excavations since we are sure that there are more tracks, put the area for tourism, since the land is municipal, including reproductions of the animals that belong to these tracks. "
Juana Guardiola added that "the City is home to various funds to preserve the tracks, but to carry out a global action we need more help."
"What you could do is a master plan to guide us on possible actions and be undertaken in phases.
It's a dream that I hope will be achieved, "said the councilman of Culture, who also thanked" the anxieties of Cayetano and his son, of all professionals who come here to investigate, the team of Lorenzo Vilas Complutense University, to Félix Pérez Lorente of the University of La Rioja that are those who have found traces that are unique and have disclosed to the international community. "
Data and publication of the University of La Rioja
According to the publication of the University of La Rioja, these prints belong to a species and genus unknown and are the first camel fossil footprints found in Europe.
A team of researchers has described the first fossil footprints of Europe camel discovered at the site of La Hoya de la Sima de Jumilla (Murcia).
The team was led Félix Pérez Lorente, professor at the University of La Rioja and the Foundation's scientific director paleontological heritage of La Rioja.
The researchers have named the new camel Paracamelichnum Jumillensis n.ichnogen.
n.ichnosp.
An animal similar to the current camel lived in the Late Miocene, about 6 million years.
The results of this research, published in the International Journal Ichnos show that this is a camelid genus and species unknown until now.
Along with Pérez Lorente, head of the group of Geology and Paleoichnology of the University of La Rioja, are Cayetano and Emilio Herrero, the Municipal Museum 'Jerónimo Molina "of Jumilla and discoverers of the prints, and Pliny Montoya, a specialist in fossil bones of mammals University of Valencia.
Research supported by the Heritage Foundation Paleontology La Rioja, have made a total of 191 footprints, belonging to a group of 10 to 15 individuals.
The number and good preservation of these footprints have allowed scientists to obtain new data on the behavior of herds of camels and confirm hypotheses about their gregarious habits.
The characteristics and distribution of the traces analyzed (parallel tracks while rotating in the same direction) are a group of animals that walked together for a kind of brackish pond.
The footprints show the typical arrangement of the gait of the camel, named "amble", in which the two ends of each side of the body move at the same time.
The size of the feet and stride length adult show that they were of a similar size together.
The comparative study over other similar shows traces its singularity, introducing new features such as a larger, trapezoidal shape, aholmadillas axes of the fingers straight, continuity of the front, wide separation and unfinished at his fingertips or absence of the central sulcus, among others.
The footprints of the camels were printed in a wetland, inland depression which succeeded periods of accumulation of water and other total drought, which caused several layers of gypsum deposits.
At the site of the Hoya de la Sima also found traces of Tertiary mammals such as horses, antelopes, bears and saber-toothed tigers.
Since the discovery of the first tracks at the site in 1997, paleontologists from the University of La Rioja, Murcia and Valencia have worked on the study of these footprints.
A first article on his work was published in 1999 in the Journal of Paleontology Spanish under the title 'Footprints mammal fossils in the upper Miocene of Sima Hoya. "
Traces of camel far described are the only traces of this animal fossils found in Europe.
So far, only footprints were located similar (though belonging to another genus and species of camelid) in deposits of Texas, Arizona, Kansas, California, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nevada, New Mexico, Turkmenistan and Argentina.
Discovery of traces
Although the quarry workers detected the presence of what looked like animal tracks, it was not until 1997 when the deputy director of the Municipal Museum of Jumilla, Cayetano Herrero, valued its importance and began its scientific study.
First scientific publication.
In 1999, researchers from the Universities of La Rioja (Félix Pérez Lorente), Malaga and Murcia published the article 'Footprints mammal fossils in the Late Miocene of the Hoya de la Sima "(Jumilla, Murcia, Spain) in the Spanish Journal of Paleontology (v.14, 255-267).
Current scientific publication.
March 2009.
Researchers at the University of La Rioja (Félix Pérez Lorente), the Municipal Museum of Jumilla (Cayetano Emilio Herrero and Herrero) and the University of Valencia (Pliny Montoya) published the article 'Paracamelichnum Jumillensis n.ichnogen.
n.ichnosp., Upper Miocene Incite Camelidae from the Hoya de la Sima site '(Murcia, Spain) in the international journal Ichnos (16, 208-219)
Paleofauna and landscape
The footprints, or fossil footprints of the Hoya de la Sima occurred when mammals of various species walked on the wet substrate will eventually dry up and become the current casts of the basin.
The resulting set of traces gives a picture of what would be the animal activity around the pond that occupied the center of the basin during a part of the Late Miocene.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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