LATE PLEISTOCENE LAST OCCURRENCES OF THE NARROW-NOSED RHINOCEROS STEPHANORHINUS HEMITOECHUS (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA) IN ITALY

Autor:	LUCA PANDOLFI, PAOLO BOSCATO, JACOPO CREZZINI, MAURIZIO GATTA, ADRIANA MORONI, MARIO ROLFO, ANTONIO TAGLIACOZZO
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Megafauna Stephanorhinus morphology paleobiology extinction MIS 3 Italy. Geology QE1-996.5 Paleontology QE701-760
Zdroj:	Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol 123, Iss 2 (2017)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0035-6883 2039-4942
DOI:	10.13130/2039-4942/8300
Popis:	Several taxa belonging to the so called megafauna became extinct during the late Quaternary in Eurasia. The extinction chronology of the narrow-nosed rhinoceros, Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, in Europe is still uncertain and only estimated around 45 ka. A systematic revision of several rhinoceros findings reveals that this species occurred in Italy at least untill 41 ka BP, at the onset of the Heinrich Event 4. Climatic fluctuations during MIS 3 and habitat fragmentation probably created an increase of small S. hemitoechus populations in southern Europe which had a tendency to become extinct.
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