Voyta L.L., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P., Vinokurova M.A.
В журнале Historical Biology
Год: 2021 Том: 33 Номер: 11 Страницы: 2656-2667
The current paper first time describes a smallBeremendiafrom the late Pleistocene deposits in the Koridornaya Cave locality (Russian Far East), which associated with the extinctBeremendia minor. The paper is the first attempt to use a comparative analytical method to evaluate a possible case of redeposition of fossil remains of this shrew. In this case, the 'comparative' part of the method corresponds to the 'faunistic approach' of Jelle Reumer, and the 'analytical' part of the method corresponds to his extended 'morphological approach. ' The analytic method uses morphospace size estimation (MSE) based on principal component analysis and estimation of the variance to evaluate redeposition ofBeremendia minorfrom the late Pleistocene deposits in the Koridornaya Cave. This result allows us to suggest the significant environmental contribution to the East Asian beremendiin extinction, such as climatic fluctuation, landscape changes and shrew community changes between the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene. We discuss the last remains of East AsianBeremendia(Peisorex) described from the Chinese early Pleistocene localities (Chiachiashan, Haimao, Renzidong) and the last remains ofLunanosorexdescribed from the Chinese late Pliocene localities (Qipanshan Hill and Houxushan Hill). MSE was performed for soricine tribes with the 'elongated' condylar process.
