The ecology of quaternary mammals in the Urals

Смирнов, Н. Г.; Косинцев, П. А.; Kuzmina, Elena; Izvarin, E.P.; Kropacheva, Yu. E.

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“…This is very different from other regions of Northern Eurasia, where one fauna is replaced by another, for example, in the Urals (e.g. Smirnov et al 1990Smirnov et al , 2014 and in Europe (e.g. Musil 1992;Markova et al 2008;Aaris-Sørensen 2009;Ponomarev et al 2013).…”

Section: Changes Of Faunal Complexes During Late Pleistocene and Holomentioning

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene small mammal (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) remains from Medvezhyi Klyk Cave in the Southern Russian Far East

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Late Pleistocene-Holocene faunal complexes of small mammals (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, and Lagomorpha) from the Russian Far East are described for the first time. We used material from the Medvezhyi Klyk Cave, located in Southern Sikhote-Alin. The numerous fossil findings from the cave display a remarkable taxonomic diversity and high degree of preservation. AMS 14C dating used for determination of deposits age. The Holocene sediments were divided into three periods: Early, Middle, and Late. The Pleistocene deposits age was not exactly determined, but under approximately estimation it can reach 50–60 ka. Thirty-nine species were found, including one member of the extinct genus of arvicolins. There are six faunal complexes identified from the studied Late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits. In general, the faunal complexes characterized by the dominance of Craseomys rufocanus within rodents, Sorex caecutiens within lipotyphlans; and relatively stability composition of most number of the dominant, codominant and subdominant species. Accordingly, the faunal complexes were described by means of two determining criteria only: relative number of species; and presence or absence of certain species. The dominant species are eurytopic and so they cannot use for reconstruction of the paleoenvironment.

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Section: Changes Of Faunal Complexes During Late Pleistocene and Holomentioning

confidence: 83%

Late Pleistocene and Holocene small mammal (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) remains from Medvezhyi Klyk Cave in the Southern Russian Far East

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“…Biostratigraphically investigated caves located in the Southern Uralian area. Smirnov, 1993;Izvarin, 2004;Razhev et al, 2005;Volkov et Smirnov et al, 1990;Abdrakhmanov et al, 2002;Smirnov, Sadykova, 2003;Shirokov, 2009;Kosintsev, Bachura, 2013;Kuzmin et al, 2017 IG Ignatievska- Bronze, Iron, Middle Ages Smirnov et al, 1990;Kosintsev, Bachura, 2013;Shirokov, Petrin, 2013;Smirnov et al, 2014;Fadeeva et al, 2018 1 Smirnov et al, 1990;Kosintsev, Bachura, 2013;Shirokov, Petrin, 2013; 3 Smirnov et al, 1990;Kosintsev, Sataev, 2005 (continued on next page) G. Danukalova, et al Quaternary International 546 (2020) 84-124 Vakhrushev, 1960;Kudryashov, 1969;Shchelinsky, 1989Shchelinsky, , 1997Lyakhnitsky, 2002;Abdrakhmanov et al, 2002;…”

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Quaternary deposits and biostratigraphy in caves and grottoes located in the Southern Urals (Russia)

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Косинцев

Yakovlev

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Investigations of the unconsolidated Upper Pleistocene -Holocene cave deposits of the Southern Urals resulted in detailed biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental data. Landscapes of this area have a mosaic character. The forests have regional features developed at the transition of Eastern European broadleaved-dark-coniferous taiga and the Southern-Uralian light coniferous forests. The modern mountain mixed forests appeared during the end of the Holocene. The forest-steppes were widespread during Late Neopleistocene -Holocene. The forest vegetation existed during the warm periods (Tabulda, Middle-Late Holocene) and areas covered by forest were reduced during the cold intervals (Kudashevo, Early Holocene). However, refugia of broad-leaved flora existed in the territory of the Southern Urals even during coldest periods. The Late Pleistocene and Holocene mollusc species are Holarctic species that occur in forest-steppe, forest and intrazonal (river banks) ecological biotopes. The Late Pleistocene and Holocene amphibian associations found in caves are characterized by species that prefer forest biotopes. The reptile faunas contain species which inhabited open areas. The Pleistocene and Holocene fish fauna is a characteristic freshwater fauna occurring in a temperate zone: all species currently inhabit the European rivers. The Pleistocene and Holocene avifaunas include species that occur in the modern ornithological faunas of Northern Asia, Central and Northern Europe. The Late Pleistocene fauna was dominated by species that inhabited open and semi-open landscapes whereas, during the Holocene, species that preferred closed biotopes dominated the bird fauna. During the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene disharmonious smallmammal faunas existed in the central and northern parts of the Southern Urals. These faunas included steppe and semi-desert species; lemmings are rare. In the southern part of the Southern Urals and in the Trans-Urals lemmings are absent. Starting from the Middle Holocene there is a gradual change of small-mammal communities. In the Southern Urals forest species replace the predominance of steppe species, and only in the Trans-Urals the steppe small mammal fauna preserved. The modern small-mammal faunal community appeared in the latitudinal part of the Belaya River valley at the end of the Late Holocene. There were relatively little changes in the Southern Urals large mammal fauna at the end of the Late Neopleistocene -beginning of Holocene. The large mammal fauna consisted of eurybiotic species and species that inhabit open landscapes. Species that prefer forest landscapes appeared at the end of the Early Holocene -beginning of the Middle Holocene. Modern large mammal species appeared during the second half of the Late Holocene.

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“…The temperature seasonality (25 C in winter to þ10 C in summer) in the Middle Urals for the Late Pleistocene was estimated by Velivetskaya et al (2011) assuming 50% damping of the seasonal d 18 O signal in bison teeth, based on an experimental dampening factor of 50e70% for modern cattle (Fricke et al, 1998;Kohn, 2004), a close analogue to bison. As the range of uncertainly (50e70%) (Smirnov et al, 2014). Collected in Bobyliok cave, layer 4 upper part, 1792 M of small mammals were identified to 12 species.…”

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Resolution-enhanced stable isotope profiles within the complete tooth rows of Late Pleistocene bisons (Middle Urals, Russia) as a record of their individual development and environmental changes

Velivetskaya

Смирнов

Kiyashko

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The ecology of quaternary mammals in the Urals

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene small mammal (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) remains from Medvezhyi Klyk Cave in the Southern Russian Far East

Late Pleistocene and Holocene small mammal (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) remains from Medvezhyi Klyk Cave in the Southern Russian Far East

Quaternary deposits and biostratigraphy in caves and grottoes located in the Southern Urals (Russia)

Resolution-enhanced stable isotope profiles within the complete tooth rows of Late Pleistocene bisons (Middle Urals, Russia) as a record of their individual development and environmental changes

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