Last Glacial mammalian assemblage from Barová Cave (Moravian Karst, Czech Republic) – new findings.

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Last Glacial mammalian assemblage from Barová Cave (Moravian Karst, Czech Republic) – new findings.

Original language description

The Barová Cave is situated in the central part of Moravian Karst (Czech Republic). It is an indented polygenetic karst cavity flowed through by the Jedovnický Creek. In the fossiliferous sediments of the Barová Cave three waves of paleontological researches took place before today. There were discovered skeletal remains of 21 taxa of animals in the Barová Cave between 2011 and 2017. Bears from the group of cave bears (Ursus ex gr. spelaeus) completely dominate (thousands pieces of their bones were found); other carnivores found in the cave include cave lions (Panthera spelaea) and wolves (Canis lupus) with hundreds of bones and cave hyenas (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) with tens of pieces of bones. Osteological remains of other five taxa of carnivores, namely the brown bear (Ursus arctos), lynx (Lynx lynx), wolverine (Gulo gulo), fox, probably red (Vulpes cf. vulpes) and marten (Martes cf. martes), were found only in units of pieces. Several bones of seven taxa of ungulates were found, namely the alpine ibex (Capra ibex), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), aurochs or bison (Bos primigenius / Bison priscus), reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), horse (Equus sp.) and woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). Just several bone remains the Barová Cave provided also in case of the hare (Lepus sp.), lemming (Dicrostonyx sp.), red vole (Clethrionomys sp.), jackdaw (Corvus monedula) and probably northern pintail (Anas aff. acuta). The tremendous amount of especially bear bone material leads to the consideration that the bears from the group of the cave bears wintered in the Barová Cave over a period of several thousand years. Dating of osteological material shows no contradiction with this assumption either. The peak of this inhabitancy is probably between 45,000 and 50,000 years BP according to radiocarbon dating.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10506 - Paleontology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Aragonit

ISSN

1335-213X

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Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

2

Pages from-to

22-23

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