Progress in faunal correlation of Late Cenozoic fluvial sequences 2000–4: the report of the IGCP 449 biostratigraphy subgroup |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK;2. Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK;3. Laboratoire de Géographie Physique, UMR CNRS 859, 1 Place Aristide Briand, 92195 Meudon cedex, France;4. UMR 8014 CNRS, Laboratoire de Paléontologie et Paléogéographie du Paléozoïque, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1, F-59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France;5. Departamento Estratigrafía, Facultad Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Calle José Antonio Nováis 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain;6. Paleontología, Ingepa, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay;7. Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 44 Volodymyrska Street, 01034 Kiev, Ukraine;8. Geography Department, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK;9. Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Eldon House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 3PW, UK;1. Department of Geography, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK;2. Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK;3. School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU, UK;1. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain;2. Department of Anthropology, Lehman College of the City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx NY 10468, USA;3. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA;4. New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY, USA;5. Departamento de Ecología y Geología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Teatinos, 29071 Málaga, Spain;6. ICREA, Barcelona, Spain;7. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Campus Sescelades, Edifici W3, 43007 Tarragona, Spain;8. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avda. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain;1. Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia;2. Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, School of Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia;1. Faculty of Business Administration, Ryukoku University, Fushimi, Kyoto, 612-8577, Japan;2. Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan;3. Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Shimane University, Matsue, Shimane, 690-8504, Japan;4. Faculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan;5. Professor Emeritus, Shimane University, Matsue, Shimane, 690-8504, Japan;6. Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, Korimoto 1-21-35, Kagoshima, 890-0065, Japan;1. Centre Français des Études Éthiopiennes, USR 3137, CNRS & Ministère de l''Europe et des Affaires Étrangères, P.O. BOX 5554, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;2. Institut de paléoprimatologie et de Paléontologie Humaine: Évolution et Paléoenvironnements, UMR 7262, CNRS & Université de Poitiers, 6 rue M. Brunet, 86073, Poitiers Cedex 9, France;1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy;2. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Lungadige di Porta Vittoria 9, 37127 Verona, Italy;1. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;2. CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing 100044, China;3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
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| Abstract: | Vertebrate and invertebrate faunal biostratigraphy is a well-tested method for establishing relative chronologies for fluviatile sequences that has proved useful in many parts of the world. The robust bones and teeth of large mammals are commonly found in fluviatile deposits, whereas small vertebrates can be readily recovered through systematic sieving of calcareous sediments, as can molluscs, the other major faunal group that has been used for biostratigraphical analysis of fluvial sequences. Because of their rapid and quantifiable rates of evolution, extinction, body mass change and dispersal during the Late Cenozoic, mammals are especially useful for ordering the fragmentary terrestrial sequence of interglacials and glacials, and proposing correlation with the global marine climatostratigraphic record. Other groups (e.g. reptiles and amphibians, ostracods) are as yet only in the initial stages of development as a dating tool, whereas some (e.g. fish, birds) still require substantial development in order to fully explore their utility. As part of IGCP 449, vertebrate and molluscan assemblages have made important contributions to datasets from a number of areas, notably northern France, central Germany, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine. Further south, mammalian assemblages have proved useful in separating discrete periods of climatic change in Iberia and Syria. At greater distances from the core area of fluvial biostratigraphical archives, significant contributions have come from South America (Uruguay River), South Africa (Vaal) and Australia (Riverine Plain and Lake Eyre drainage basin). |
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