European Water Buffalo from Moscow Region: an Exotic Immigrant at the End of the Pleistocene

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Abstract

A skull of the extinct European water buffalo Bubalus murrensis, discovered near Kolomna, evidences a dispersal event of these thermophilic animals during the Bølling — Allerød interstadial warming (about 14700–12600 years ago) into the central part of the Russian Plain, mainly occupied by cold resistant fauna. This unexpected discovery demonstrates a complex pattern of the transformation processes of the Late Pleistocene megafauna in different regions of Europe against the background of a sharp global cooling after the preceded warming interstadial.

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A. V Lopatin

Borissiak Paleontological Institute, RAS

Email: alopat@paleo.ru
Moscow, Russia

I. A Vislobokova

Borissiak Paleontological Institute, RAS

Email: ivisl@paleo.ru
Moscow, Russia

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