The Taurida Cave, a New Locality of Early Pleistocene Vertebrates in Crimea

A V Lopatin; I A Vislobokova; A V Lavrov; D B Startsev; D O Gimranov; N V Zelenkov; E N Maschenko; M V Sotnikova; K K Tarasenko; V V Titov

doi:10.1134/S0012496619020066

The Taurida Cave, a New Locality of Early Pleistocene Vertebrates in Crimea

Dokl Biol Sci. 2019 Mar;485(1):40-43. doi: 10.1134/S0012496619020066. Epub 2019 Jun 13.

Authors

A V Lopatin^{1

2}, I A Vislobokova³, A V Lavrov³, D B Startsev⁴, D O Gimranov⁵, N V Zelenkov³, E N Maschenko³, M V Sotnikova⁶, K K Tarasenko³, V V Titov⁷

Affiliations

¹ Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647, Moscow, Russia. [email protected].
² Moscow State University, 119992, Moscow, Russia. [email protected].
³ Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647, Moscow, Russia.
⁴ Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, 295007, Simferopol, Russia.
⁵ Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 620008, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
⁶ Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017, Moscow, Russia.
⁷ Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

PMID: 31197592
DOI: 10.1134/S0012496619020066

Abstract

We describe a vertebrate assemblage from the Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida karst cave discovered in 2018 in central Crimea (Zuya village, Belogorsk raion). The assemblage is correlated with Late Villafranchian faunas of the Eastern Mediterranean and has an approximate age of 1.8-1.5 Ma.

MeSH terms

Animals
Biodiversity*
Caves*
Fossils / anatomy & histology*
Tooth / anatomy & histology
Vertebrates / anatomy & histology
Vertebrates / classification*