A Mass Burial of Fossil Lions (Carnivora, Felidae, Panthera (Leo) ex gr. fossilis-spelaea) from Eurasia
| Autor: | M. M. Devyashin, Nikita V. Zelenkov, Tatyana Yakovleva, Anatoly Yakovlev, V. I. Silaev, Marina Sotnikova, V. G. Kotov, N. G. Smirnov, N. A. Plasteeva, N. E. Zaretskaya, D. O. Gimranov, M. M. Rumyantsev, Pavel A. Kosintsev, I. M. Nurmukhametov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Lions
Male 0301 basic medicine 010506 paleontology Pleistocene Fauna Zoology Age and sex 01 natural sciences Bone and Bones General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology law.invention 03 medical and health sciences Cave law biology.animal Carnivora Animals Radiocarbon dating 0105 earth and related environmental sciences geography geography.geographical_feature_category 030102 biochemistry & molecular biology General Immunology and Microbiology biology Fossils social sciences General Medicine humanities Caves Natural death Female Panthera General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Doklady Biological Sciences. 482:191-193 |
| ISSN: | 1608-3105 0012-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1134/s0012496618050046 |
| Popis: | The vertebrate fauna from the cave deposits in Imanai Cave in the Southern Urals (53°02' N, 56°26'E) has been studied. It contains 715 bones that belonged to at least 11 individuals of fossil lion (Panthera (Leo) ex gr. fossilis-spelaea). It has been established that this is one of the largest Eurasian burial sites of fossil lions. The bones were accumulated due to the natural death of animals inside the cave. The age and sex estimations have shown that at least six adult males and five adult females died there. According to the accompanying fauna, radiocarbon, geochemical, and mineralogical analyses and archaeological finds, the interval of the lion bone accumulation is determined as the first half to middle of Late Pleistocene (OIS 5-3). |
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