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Upper Pleistocene lower vertebrates from the cave Sandalja (Istria, Croatia): Taphonomy and Paleoecology

This study is a contribution to taxnomic, taphonomic and paleoecological study of lower vertebrates collected from the Upper Pleistocene deposits of the cave Sandalja (Istria, Croatia). Among 1205 identified skeletal remains majority belongs to the amphibian and fresh-water fish taxa in upper levels, while in the lower deposits reptiles are numerous. Thus the fauna reflects different microhabitats, but also a short-time climatic and hydrologic changes in the surroundings of the cave. The described fauna is partly allochtonous (fishes imported by animal predators or humans), and partly autochtonous (amphibians and/or reptiles searching for a shelter in the cave).

Upper Pleistocene; lower vertebrates; taphonomy; paleoecology; Sandalja; Istria; Croatia;

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