MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SMALL MAMMAL FAUNAS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE: CHRONOLOGY, CORRELATION

Anastasia Markova; Thijs van Kolfschoten

doi:10.24057/2071-9388-2012-5-4-17-23

MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SMALL MAMMAL FAUNAS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE: CHRONOLOGY, CORRELATION

Anastasia Markova, Thijs van Kolfschoten

https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2012-5-4-17-23

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Abstract

Many new very important Middle Pleistocene small mammal localities of Europe were discovered during the last decades. These new data permit to divide the Middle Pleistocene geological sequences of Eastern and Western Europe and carried out the correlation between them. However, there are some difficulties connected with the incongruity of mammal appearance in different parts of Europe. In this paper we would like to discuss all these problems using Middle Pleistocene small mammal data and to present the possible biostratigraphical scheme for the whole Europe.

Keywords

small mammals, Middle Pleistocene, Europe, correlation

About the Authors

Anastasia Markova

Russian Federation
Leading scientist, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Staromonetny per., 29, 119017 Moscow, Russia

Thijs van Kolfschoten

Netherlands
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University; P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Reuvensplaats 3-4, 2311 BE Leiden

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For citation:

Markova A., van Kolfschoten T. MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SMALL MAMMAL FAUNAS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE: CHRONOLOGY, CORRELATION. GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. 2012;5(4):17-23. https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2012-5-4-17-23