Revised floral and faunal assemblages from Late Pleistocene deposits of the Gánovce-Hrádok Neanderthal site – biostratigraphic and palaeoecological implications

Revisory research of floral and animal assemblages from the Neanderthal site of Gánovce-Hrádok confirmed the previous stratigraphic division of the travertine mound to five horizons on the basis of different petrological and palaeontological contents, indicating climatic and palaeoenvironmental chan...

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Published inFossil Imprint Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 182 - 196
Main Authors Sabol, Martin, Slyšková, Diana, Bodoriková, Silvia, Čejka, Tomáš, Čerňanský, Andrej, Ivanov, Martin, Joniak, Peter, Kováčová, Marianna, Tóth, Csaba
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published De Gruyter Open 01.08.2017
Subjects
Aves
Flora
Gánovce-Hrádok Neanderthal site
Mammalia
Mollusca
Pleistocene
Reptiles
Slovakia
travertine
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Summary:Revisory research of floral and animal assemblages from the Neanderthal site of Gánovce-Hrádok confirmed the previous stratigraphic division of the travertine mound to five horizons on the basis of different petrological and palaeontological contents, indicating climatic and palaeoenvironmental changes in the vicinity, from the Saalian termination to the Holocene. At least two species of molluscs and approximately 20 taxa of vertebrates have been determined, and at least 8 endocasts of large mammals have been re-discovered. Revised floral record contained 570 specimens, but no more than 20% were suitable for taxonomic revision.
ISSN:2533-4050
2533-4069
DOI:10.2478/if-2017-0010