The Use of the Malacofaunistic Method for Reconstructing the Palaeoecological Conditions of the Late Late Pleistocene
to Holocene Based on Material from the Tetyukhinskaya Cave Site,
Southern Far East, Russia
Osipova E.M., Danukalova G.A., Tiunov M.P.
В журналеBiology Bulletin
Год: 2024 Том: 51 Номер: 8 Страницы: 2638–2659
Results of the study of terrestrial mollusc shells from the unconsolidated deposits of the Tetyukhinskaya Cave, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia are presented. Brief species descriptions of the molluscs and their images complete the scarce information on the fossil Quaternary mollusc fauna of the region. With
the help of malacological analysis, characteristic zones and malacological complexes were identified, which
were used as indicators of the habitats near the cave entrance and in the adjacent territory. The data concerning the palaeoecological conditions of individual mollusc species confirm the development of broad-leaved
and mixed forests, alongside open meadows with herbage vegetation in the region near the cave, towards the
end of the Late Pleistocene and in the Holocene.