The Villafranchian carnivoran guild of Greece:implications for the fauna,biochronology and paleoecology  

作　　者：George D.KOUFOS 

机构地区：[1]Department of Geology,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Thessaloniki,Greece

出　　处：《Integrative Zoology》2014年第4期444-460,共17页整合动物学（英文版）

基　　金：I wish to thank Professor M-R.Palombo for invit­ing me to participate in this special volume.I also thank A.Athanassiou,G.Lyras and S.Roussiakis for provid­ing photos of the material housed in the Museum of Pa­laeontology and Geology,University of Athens.Many thanks are due to other reviewers for their valuable com­ments and suggestions on the manuscript.

摘　　要：Knowledge on the Villafranchian faunas of Greece was limited for a long time,but over the past 3 decades sever­al new fossiliferous sites have been discovered and new material has been unearthed.The carnivores constitute a remarkable part of this material and their study has provided useful information for the taxonomy,chronology and palaeoecology.The Villafranchian carnivoran guild includes numerous taxa belonging to various families.Some of them are interesting as they are differentiated from the other Eurasian families.They cover the entire Villafran­chian but the mass is known from the Middle to the Epi-Villafranchian(EVC).Despite the discontinuous data,they provide useful biochronological results.The coexistence of Pliocrocuta perrieri and Pachycrocuta breviros­tris in the locality of Gerakarou 1 is strong evidence for the Middle Villafranchian(MVC)/Late Villafranchian(LVC)boundary.The composition of the Villafranchian carnivores suggests that the canids predominate,while the felids,hyenids and mustelids are well represented;the ursids are represented by a single taxon,the well-known Ursus etruscus,which seems to be common during the entire Villafranchian.The carnivoran guild structure and the mul­tivariate analysis of the Greek Villafranchian carnivoran assemblages(MVC,LVC and EVC)in comparison with modern assembalges from open and closed environments indicate a relatively open landscape,which is in agree­ment with previous results for the Villafranchian of Greece.During the EVC there is a faunal renewal that is relat­ed to a more open and dry environment,like savannah bushland/grassland.

关 键 词：BIOCHRONOLOGY CARNIVORE Greece PALEOECOLOGY Villafranchian 

分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]