A Late Pleistocene to Holocene succession of leporid species in the southern Vienna Basin (Austria) | Zendy

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A Late Pleistocene to Holocene succession of leporid species in the southern Vienna Basin (Austria)

Author(s) -

Kristof Veitschegger,

Florian A. Fladerer,

Doris Nagel

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

comptes rendus palevol

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.656

H-Index - 47

eISSN - 1777-571X

pISSN - 1631-0683

DOI - 10.1016/j.crpv.2015.05.009

Subject(s) - pleistocene , holocene , structural basin , geology , paleontology , early pleistocene , geography , archaeology

The new archaeological and palaeontological site of Smrcka Lorenz-Abris yielded three dif-ferent leporid species in stratigraphical sequence, mirroring the effect of environmentalchanges and the influence of humans in this area. Lepus timidus is a species with a wideLate Pleistocene distribution, but disappeared in the Vienna Basin at the end of the Pleis-tocene. Lepus europaeus appeared in the Holocene and became dominant in lower altitudesin Austria. Interspecific competition as well as anthropogenic and natural environmen-tal changes are the main factors that caused this replacement. At Smrcka Lorenz-Abris, L.europaeus became dominant around 7000 a BP. This site yielded the last evidence of a moun-tain hare in the Vienna Basin, with a preserved lower jaw that was dated to be from around14,000 a BP. The most recent immigrant is Oryctolagus cuniculus, which was introduced toAustria, and only found in the upper parts of the section

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