Early Pleistocene Vegetation and Environments near Taurida Cave (Central Crimea) on the Basis of Microphytofossil Data

The existence of vegetation of open environments with a predominance of grass–forb meadow associations and the participation of pine–oak forests was reconstructed on the basis of study of microphytofossils from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave in central Crimea. These results are c...

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Published in:Doklady earth sciences 2024-11, Vol.519 (1), p.1906-1911
Main Authors: Lopatina, D. A., Zanina, O. G., Lopatin, A. V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coniferous forests
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Fibers
Paleontology
Plant fibers
Pleistocene
Pleistocene deposits
Pleistocene vegetation
Pollen
Spores
Trichomes
Vegetable fibers
Vegetation
Vertebrates
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Summary:The existence of vegetation of open environments with a predominance of grass–forb meadow associations and the participation of pine–oak forests was reconstructed on the basis of study of microphytofossils from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave in central Crimea. These results are consistent with data on the composition of land vertebrates from the Taurida locality. The studied spectrum demonstrates similarity with the spore–pollen assemblage of the Berezan horizon of Ukraine with a maximum age of about 1.8 Ma. Based on the abundance of trichomes and plant fibers similar to those of Ficus carica Linnaeus, 1753 in the coprolites, it is assumed that the extinct hyenas Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Gervais, 1850) ate fig fruits in certain seasons.
ISSN:1028-334X
1531-8354
DOI:10.1134/S1028334X24603262