Late Pleistocene flora and mammoth skeleton from Rzochów near Mielec (S. Poland)
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https://doi.org/10.26485/BP/1976/26/22Keywords:
macroscopic remains of mammal, swamp-forest community, Brörup interstadialAbstract
The composition of the flora identified on the basis of palynological studies and macroscopic remains of plants obtained from the deposits at Rzochów (S. Poland), in which the skeleton of a mammoth described as Mammuthus trogontherii was found (BORSUK-BIAŁYNICKA and WYSOCZAŃSKI-MINKOWICZ, 1969; LASKOWSKA WYSOCZAŃSKA and NIKLEWSKI, 1969), represents a swamp-forest community resembling the Carici elongatae-Alnetum association. The results of geomorphological and palaebotanic studies and those of the dating of bones by the apatite-collagen method (50.000-56.000 years) refer the peat from Rzochów to the Brörup interstadial of the last glaciation. The paper includes the opinion that the skeleton, in all probability, did not belong to a steppe elephant (M. trogontherii) but to a woolly mammoth (M. primigenius).
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