@misc{10481/97066,
year = {2024},
month = {11},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97066},
abstract = {Crespo et al. (2023) have recently described a new genus and species called Europotamogale melkarti, purportedly an afrosoricid ‘tourist
genus’ coming from central Africa to Spain during the Pliocene. The occurrence of this mysterious animal has been justified by means
of a migration of thousands of kilometers leaving no other fossil evidence all along such an incredible journey. According to our analyses,
this ‘tourist genus’ is surrounded by many inconsistent facts, which lead us to the conclusion that Europotamogale should not have been
erected as a new taxon because its holotype (and only element yet known) belongs to a very different animal. We alternatively propose
that this fossil is indeed a fragment of a tooth of a water-mole of the genus Archaeodesmana, which is a much more parsimonious
hypothesis.},
organization = {Project P20_00066 (financed
by the Consejería de Universidad, Investigación e
Innovación, Junta de Andalucía/FEDER)},
organization = {Projects PID2020-
117289GB-I00 and PID2020-116908GB-I00, funded by
the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Spanish Ministry
of Science and Innovation (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/50
1100011033/)},
organization = {Research groups RNM190 (Junta
de Andalucı´a)},
organization = {‘‘PALEOSTRAT: paleontological and
stratigraphic record from Cretaceous and Cenozoic” (Grup
de Recerca 2021 SGR 00127, Generalitat de Catalunya)},
publisher = {Elsevier},
keywords = {Afrosoricida},
keywords = {Eulipotyphla},
keywords = {Pliocene},
title = {No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. (2023)},
doi = {10.1016/j.palwor.2024.02.002},
author = {Furió, Marc and Minwer-Barakat Requena, Raef and García-Alix Daroca, Antonio},
}