2024/09/04 by D. A. Lopatina, О. Г. Занина, А. В. Лопатин · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Marine and environmental studies #Soil and Environmental Studies
paper · doi:10.1134/s1028334x24603262
openalex publication_date 2024/09/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Abstract 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.