A Late Pleistocene to Holocene succession of leporid species in the southern Vienna Basin (Austria)
- Autor(en)
- Kristof Veitschegger, Florian Fladerer, Doris Nagel
- Abstrakt
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.© 2015 Académie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Paläontologie
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Universität Zürich (UZH), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
- Journal
- Academie des Sciences. Comptes Rendus. Palevol
- Band
- 14
- Seiten
- 403-410
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 8
- ISSN
- 1631-0683
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2015.05.009
- Publikationsdatum
- 07-2015
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 105118 Paläontologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Palaeontology
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/a-late-pleistocene-to-holocene-succession-of-leporid-species-in-the-southern-vienna-basin-austria(812a219d-f087-4b74-89b2-de1a4c9610bd).html