Similarity and regional differences in Quaternary arvicolid evolution in Central and Eastern Europe

Maul, Lutz Christian; Маркова, А.К.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2006.09.010

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“…This small rodent is wellrepresented in the fossil record from the Middle to Late Pleistocene throughout much of Europe (6). A tundra specialist, the collared lemming coexisted with many large mammal species that perished around the Pleistocene/Holocene transition.…”

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Serial population extinctions in a small mammal indicate Late Pleistocene ecosystem instability

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Palkopoulou

Dalén

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The Late Pleistocene global extinction of many terrestrial mammal species has been a subject of intensive scientific study for over a century, yet the relative contributions of environmental changes and the global expansion of humans remain unresolved. A defining component of these extinctions is a bias toward large species, with the majority of small-mammal taxa apparently surviving into the present. Here, we investigate the population-level history of a key tundra-specialist small mammal, the collared lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus), to explore whether events during the Late Pleistocene had a discernible effect beyond the large mammal fauna. Using ancient DNA techniques to sample across three sites in North-West Europe, we observe a dramatic reduction in genetic diversity in this species over the last 50,000 y. We further identify a series of extinction-recolonization events, indicating a previously unrecognized instability in Late Pleistocene small-mammal populations, which we link with climatic fluctuations. Our results reveal climateassociated, repeated regional extinctions in a keystone prey species across the Late Pleistocene, a pattern likely to have had an impact on the wider steppe-tundra community, and one that is concordant with environmental change as a major force in structuring Late Pleistocene biodiversity. megafauna | palaeogenetics | palaeoclimate | modelling

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Serial population extinctions in a small mammal indicate Late Pleistocene ecosystem instability

Brace¹,

Palkopoulou

Dalén

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Microtus hintoni Kretzoi, 1941 is also similar to M. gregaloides and seems to belong to the earliest Microtus taxa derived from the Allophaiomys group that characterize the Early Pleistocene (e.g. Maul and Markova, 2007). The ACC is similar to that of M. gregaloides, but shorter and more derived in the fourth lingual and third buccal reentrant angle.…”

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Micromammals from the 1995 Mammoth Excavation at West Runton, Norfolk, UK: Morphometric data, biostratigraphy and taxonomic reappraisal

Maul

Parfitt

2010

Quaternary International

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In this paper, the small mammals recovered from sediments associated with the West Runton Elephant has been analysed and compared with sites in other parts of Europe. Major taxonomical problems are indicated and we suggest ways of utilising such morphological complexity to refine biostratigraphical and chronostratigraphic attributions.The micromammal assemblage from the West Runton Elephant Site so far totals 16 species from the West Runton Forest Bed (WRFB). There are strong similarities with the arvicoliG VSHFWUXP RI EDVDO OD\HU + LQ WKH .RQČSUXV\ & SURILOH &]HFK Republic), which accumulated under cooler conditions preceding the thermal maximum of an early Middle Pleistocene interglacial. Rare steppic indicators (e.g. Cricetus) at West Runton also imply a somewhat cooler and more continental climate than the present day, but overall the fauna is fully temperate in character. West Runton shares several stratigraphically significant small mammal taxa with Voigtstedt (Central Germany) and morphometric comparisons suggest that Voigtstedt may be slightly younger than West Runton. The presence of Mimomys savini, with a latest occurrence in the early part of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 15, together with the palaeomagnetic evidence suggests the WRFB may have been emplaced during the early part of MIS 17. However, given the complexity of the marine isotope curve during the early part of the Brunhes Chron and differences between global and A c c e p t e d m a n u s c r i p t A c c e p t e d m a n u s c r i p t -2 -25.10.2008 regional climatic evolution, it is difficult to assign the normally magnetized WRFB to a particular Marine Isotope Stage (MIS).

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“…Biostratigraphy is also acquiring high precision when used with micromammals in archaeological and/or paleontological sites (Cuenca-Bescós et al 2010, 2016a, 2016bMaul and Markova, 2007;Repenning 2003;Kawamura and Zhang 2009). Relative dating and constructing time in archaeology is based mostly on micromammalian zones because ideal taxa for biozones are those with abundant fossils, which show good preservation of the diagnostic characters in the fossil record, and rapid evolution of their species.…”

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“…Maul and Markova (2007) provide an interesting and critical overview of the biozonation in central and eastern Europe based on these rodents. As in the example provided for western Europe, the authors suggest a good number of stratigraphic sections and localities and provide a chart of the micromammalian zones in central and eastern Europe (Figure 2).…”

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Quaternary Micro‐Mammal Zones

Cuenca‐Bescós

2018

The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences

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The use of fossils to determine the age of rocks is based on the fact that organisms change permanently in a progressive and irreversible evolutionary process. For this reason, geologic time can be divided into successive intervals, or zones, characterized by a different association of fossils in each zone. The best fossils used as tools in biozonation have to fulfil three conditions: being abundant, having good preservation of diagnostic characters in the fossil record, and having rapid evolution of species. The three conditions are achieved by the micromammals. Rodents are quickly evolving micromammals, are especially abundant during the Quaternary, and their teeth are diagnostic for the determination of their taxa, usually at the species level. The micromammalian zones are tools for relative dating and constructing time in archaeology. During the Quaternary, the biozones defined in Eurasia and in North America are mostly based on arvicoline rodents.

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Similarity and regional differences in Quaternary arvicolid evolution in Central and Eastern Europe

Cited by 103 publications

References 8 publications

Serial population extinctions in a small mammal indicate Late Pleistocene ecosystem instability

Serial population extinctions in a small mammal indicate Late Pleistocene ecosystem instability

Micromammals from the 1995 Mammoth Excavation at West Runton, Norfolk, UK: Morphometric data, biostratigraphy and taxonomic reappraisal

Quaternary Micro‐Mammal Zones

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