Pleistocene small mammal faunas from the fluvial deposits of SW regions of Eastern Europe
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2949178924020082
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Abstract
The investigation of the Pleistocene small mammal faunas from the south-western regions of the Russian Plain permits to reconstruct their principal evolutional stages during last ~1 400 000 yr. These materials took the possibilities to date the Pleistocene alluvial, liman and marine deposits and also the horizons of the fossil soils. The unique small mammal and brackish-water mollusk localities in marine and liman-deltaic deposits of the Black Sea permits to demonstrate a direct correlation between the events in the Black Sea basin and on the continent. The direct correlations of the events (transgressions) in the Black Sea and on the continent were made based on the joint finds of the brackish-water mollusks and the small mammal remains. Thus, the Tiraspolian faunas synchronous to the Chaudian transgression of the Black Sea; the faunas of the Gunkovian small mammal assemblage (MIS 11, Likhvin interglacial) are correlated to the Early Euxinian transgression. The faunas existing in the last warming (Interglacial?) of the Middle Pleistocene (MIS 7) are synchronous to the Uzunlar transgression, and the faunas of the Mikulino (=Eemian) Interglacial are correlated with Karangat transgression (MIS 5e). The species of the open (steppe and forest-steppe) landscapes prevailed in the all of the faunas.
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Supporting agencies: This paper supported by scientific program of the Institute of Geography RAS “Biotical, geographical-hydrobiological and landscape evaluation of environments to create the foundations of rational nature management” FMWS-2024-0007 (10210210517034658-8 (АА-АА-А19-119021990093-8. I grateful to Dr. A. Yu. Puzachenko for creation of the mammal localities map, to Dr. A. I. Tsatskin (Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israil) for the permission to present his unpublished data on the Khadzhimus section structure and to the reviewers of the paper for their constructive advices
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