The most representative vertebrate fossil record and palaeontological heritage from the western Pyrenees

  1. Ainara Badiola 1
  2. Mikel Arlegi 1
  3. Humberto Astibia 1
  4. Nathalie Bardet 2
  5. Ana Berreteaga 1
  6. J. Carmelo Corral 3
  7. Ignacio Díaz-Martínez 4
  8. Asier Gómez- Olivencia 1
  9. Mikel A. Lopez-Horgue 1
  10. Leire Perales-Gogenola 1
  11. Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU
  2. 2 Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle (Paris)
  3. 3 Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava
  4. 4 Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (Argentina)
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Revista:
Spanish journal of palaeontology

ISSN: 2255-0550

Año de publicación: 2019

Volumen: 34

Número: 1

Páginas: 103-120

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.7203/SJP.34.1.15297 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Spanish journal of palaeontology

Resumen

The western Pyrenees is a territory with a remarkable geodiversity and an important fossil record, which constitutes a large archive of palaeobiodiversity. With respect to the vertebrate fossil record, the western Pyrenees (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Pamplona Basin and the north-western sector of the Ebro Basin) are relevant both from the point of view of palaeontological sites and fossil collections. Several vertebrate fossil sites are integrated into the Inventory of Geological Interest Sites (LIG) with high to very high palaeontological interest of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. The valuation of the palaeobiodiversity and fossil record is an important step for the study of palaeontological heritage of a territory and the set-up of geoconservation designations (e.g., LIG, geosites). However, the mere inclusion of the palaeontological assents in these geoconservation designations does not guarantee either their protection and conservation or the suitable management of the fossil collection The scientific and cultural dissemination of the palaeontological heritage of a territory like one studied here should have greater collaboration between the palaeontologists that have valued the palaeontological assets and the technicians and institutions that manage them. This requires the provision of specific budgetary items that enable the development of the different activities of research, conservation and social dissemination of this heritage.

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This research was supported by the Gobierno Vasco/ Eusko Jaurlaritza (research group IT-1044-16) and the Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU, research groups PPG17/05 and GIU18/163). The authors also acknowledge the support of the research projects CGL2017-85038-P of the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad and the research project PGC2018-093925-B-C33 of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades of Spain, and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). We thank the reviewers Drs Alberto Cobos (Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis) and Francisco Ortega (UNED, Madrid) for their valuable comments and suggestions that have helped to improve the manuscript.

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