3_Environmental conditions across Poland during the Eemian Interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains
Knowledge on the Eemian (MIS 5e) fauna of Poland is based on vertebrate remains from 16 open-air localities and 8 cave sites. Considering the short period of time covered by MIS 5e, the amount of data is surprisingly large. There is still an ongoing debate on whether the age of some assemblages is E...
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ftjgq:oai:geojournals.pgi.gov.pl:article/33807 2023-10-09T21:56:24+02:00 3_Environmental conditions across Poland during the Eemian Interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains Stefaniak, Krzysztof Kovalchuk, Oleksandr Marciszak, Adrian Sobczyk, Artur Socha, Paweł 2023-07-05 application/pdf https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/agp/article/view/33807 eng eng Faculty of Geology University of Warsaw https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/agp/article/view/33807/24784 https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/agp/article/view/33807 Copyright (c) 2023 Acta Geologica Polonica Acta Geologica Polonica; Articles in press (small changes may appear); 1-32 001-5709 Vertebrates MIS 5e Eemian Faunal assemblage Palaeoenvironment Poland info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftjgq 2023-09-18T23:26:47Z Knowledge on the Eemian (MIS 5e) fauna of Poland is based on vertebrate remains from 16 open-air localities and 8 cave sites. Considering the short period of time covered by MIS 5e, the amount of data is surprisingly large. There is still an ongoing debate on whether the age of some assemblages is Eemian, latest Saalian or even earliest Weichselian. There are faunal assemblages or stratigraphically isolated finds with some disputable evidence. The full picture of the evolution of the Eemian vertebrate fauna in the present-day territory of Poland is still far from being complete. The finds of various groups of vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) from the Eemian Interglacial of Poland are analysed in terms of their environmental preferences. A number of thermophilic species or forms which preferred temperate climate conditions are known from this period. Among them, Clethrionomys glareolus, Glis glis, Meles meles, Martes martes, Lynx lynx, Felis silvestris, Sus scrofa, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, and Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis indicate a forest environment. The presence of species that preferred more open environments (Cricetus cricetus, Mammuthus primigenius, Coelodonta antiquitatis, and Equus ferus) is also recorded for the Eemian Interglacial of Poland. Characteristic was the presence of the large broad-toothed and flat-headed Ursus arctos taubachensis, which additionally often outnumbered remains of Ursus spelaeus sensu lato in the contemporary layers. The Eemian vertebrate fauna of Poland consisted of about 150 species (representing 61 genera and 26 families), most of which were recorded earlier from other localities of this age in central and eastern Europe. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos Lynx Geological Quarterly |
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Vertebrates MIS 5e Eemian Faunal assemblage Palaeoenvironment Poland Stefaniak, Krzysztof Kovalchuk, Oleksandr Marciszak, Adrian Sobczyk, Artur Socha, Paweł 3_Environmental conditions across Poland during the Eemian Interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains |
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Knowledge on the Eemian (MIS 5e) fauna of Poland is based on vertebrate remains from 16 open-air localities and 8 cave sites. Considering the short period of time covered by MIS 5e, the amount of data is surprisingly large. There is still an ongoing debate on whether the age of some assemblages is Eemian, latest Saalian or even earliest Weichselian. There are faunal assemblages or stratigraphically isolated finds with some disputable evidence. The full picture of the evolution of the Eemian vertebrate fauna in the present-day territory of Poland is still far from being complete. The finds of various groups of vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) from the Eemian Interglacial of Poland are analysed in terms of their environmental preferences. A number of thermophilic species or forms which preferred temperate climate conditions are known from this period. Among them, Clethrionomys glareolus, Glis glis, Meles meles, Martes martes, Lynx lynx, Felis silvestris, Sus scrofa, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, and Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis indicate a forest environment. The presence of species that preferred more open environments (Cricetus cricetus, Mammuthus primigenius, Coelodonta antiquitatis, and Equus ferus) is also recorded for the Eemian Interglacial of Poland. Characteristic was the presence of the large broad-toothed and flat-headed Ursus arctos taubachensis, which additionally often outnumbered remains of Ursus spelaeus sensu lato in the contemporary layers. The Eemian vertebrate fauna of Poland consisted of about 150 species (representing 61 genera and 26 families), most of which were recorded earlier from other localities of this age in central and eastern Europe. |
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Stefaniak, Krzysztof Kovalchuk, Oleksandr Marciszak, Adrian Sobczyk, Artur Socha, Paweł |
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Stefaniak, Krzysztof Kovalchuk, Oleksandr Marciszak, Adrian Sobczyk, Artur Socha, Paweł |
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3_Environmental conditions across Poland during the Eemian Interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains |
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3_Environmental conditions across Poland during the Eemian Interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains |
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3_Environmental conditions across Poland during the Eemian Interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains |
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3_Environmental conditions across Poland during the Eemian Interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains |
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3_Environmental conditions across Poland during the Eemian Interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains |
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3_environmental conditions across poland during the eemian interglacial reconstructed from vertebrate remains |
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Faculty of Geology University of Warsaw |
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2023 |
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