Ust'-Kanskaya Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Russian Federation
collected by S. I. Rudenko, I. M. Pavliuchenko 1954
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Poephagus gruniens
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27 specimens | |||||||||
Tetrao altaicus
Gebler 1836
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5 specimens | |||||||||
"Tetrao urogallus altaicus" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Marmota sp.
Frisch 1775
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15 specimens | |||||||||
Citellus undulatus
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35 specimens | |||||||||
synonym of Spermophilus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus sp.
Schrank 1798
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus tolai
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105 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros tichorhinus
Cuvier 1822
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10 specimens | |||||||||
synonym of Coelodonta antiquitatis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus hemionus
Pallas 1775
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40 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Equus (Hemionus) hemionus | ||||||||||
Equus caballus
Linnaeus 1758
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62 specimens | |||||||||
"Equus caballus fossilis" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Spirocerus kjakhtensis
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19 specimens | |||||||||
"Spiroceros kjakhtensis" | ||||||||||
Gazella cf. gutturosa
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30 specimens | |||||||||
Ovis ammon
(Linnaeus 1758)
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159 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Capra ammon | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta spelaea
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35 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustela erminea
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Meles meles
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus cf. arctos
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis lupus
Linnaeus 1758
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23 specimens | |||||||||
Vulpes vulpes
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Corvidae
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Pyrrhocorax graculus
(Linnaeus 1766)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
"Pyrrhocorax graculus graculus" | ||||||||||
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
(Linnaeus 1758)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Strigiformes
- Strigidae
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Asio flammeus
(Pontoppidan 1763)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
"Asio flamuncus" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Anseriformes
- Anatidae
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Anas crecca
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Anas platyrhynchos
Linnaeus 1758
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Casarca ferruginea
(Pallas 1764)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Tadorna ferruginea | ||||||||||
Anas strepera
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Mareca strepera | ||||||||||
Anser anser
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Phasianidae
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Lagopus lagopus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Perdix perdix
(Linnaeus 1758)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Lyrurus tetrix
(Linnaeus 1758)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Russian Federation |
Coordinates: | 50.9° North, 84.8° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 50.9° North, 84.8° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Altitude: | 1050 meters |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Paleolithic" with a "tool assemblage in the Mousterian tradition" and "may be attributed to the warm phase that preceded the last glaciation in the Altai"; "the layer containing cultural remains" was "up to 1.75 m thick"
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Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | paleosol/pedogenic "limestone" |
Lithology description: fossils and tools are from "loose soil, with products of the disintegration of the limestone, separate slabs of limestone both large and small, rubble, and cultural remains" | |
Environment: | cave |
Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic,bone collector,coprolite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | random |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Abundance in sediment: | common |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | none |
Disassociated major elements: | none |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Feeding/predation traces: | fractures,tooth marks |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis | ||
Collectors: | S. I. Rudenko, I. M. Pavliuchenko | Collection dates: | 1954 |
Metadata
Database number: | 79548 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-03-12 22:03:45 | Last modified: | 2018-06-29 21:25:28 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-12 22:03:45 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
66209. | S. I. Rudenko. 1960. Ust'-Kanskaya peshchernaya paleoliticheskaya stoyanka. Materiali i Issledovaniya po Arkheologii SSR 79:104-125 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
26697 | S. I. Rudenko. 1961. The Ust'-Kanskaia Paleolithic cave site, Siberia. American Antiquity 27(2):203-214 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |