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
Poephagus gruniens
27 specimens
Tetrao altaicus Gebler 1836
5 specimens
"Tetrao urogallus altaicus"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota sp. Frisch 1775
15 specimens
Citellus undulatus
35 specimens
synonym of Spermophilus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798
1 specimen
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus tolai
105 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros tichorhinus Cuvier 1822
10 specimens
synonym of Coelodonta antiquitatis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus hemionus Pallas 1775
40 specimens
recombined as Equus (Hemionus) hemionus
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758
62 specimens
"Equus caballus fossilis"
Mammalia - Bovidae
Spirocerus kjakhtensis
19 specimens
"Spiroceros kjakhtensis"
Gazella cf. gutturosa
30 specimens
Ovis ammon (Linnaeus 1758)
159 specimens
original and current combination Capra ammon
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta spelaea
35 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Meles meles (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus cf. arctos Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
23 specimens
Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Corvidae
Pyrrhocorax graculus (Linnaeus 1766)
3 specimens
"Pyrrhocorax graculus graculus"
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Linnaeus 1758)
5 specimens
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Strigidae
Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan 1763)
1 specimen
"Asio flamuncus"
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas crecca Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758
5 specimens
Casarca ferruginea (Pallas 1764)
2 specimens
recombined as Tadorna ferruginea
Anas strepera Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
recombined as Mareca strepera
Anser anser (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Lagopus lagopus (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Perdix perdix (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Lyrurus tetrix (Linnaeus 1758)
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"
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]