scholarly journals Upper Pleistocene Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) skeleton remains from Praha-Podbaba and other lion finds from loess and river terrace sites in Central Bohemia (Czech Republic)

2007 ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
C.G. Diedrich
Author(s):  
J. Alan Holman

Localities in countries in the Geographic Divisions below arc numbered to correspond with those in the taxonomic accounts in Chapter 4. Figure 40 is an artists concept of some Pleistocene herpetological species and extinct mammals at the Shropham Pit Locality (Interglacial Component), Norfolk, England (Britain: Upper Pleistocene Site 10). Countries are arranged in divisions from west to cast, and from north to south when possible. Oceanic islands are listed under the country to which they belong. Malta is included with Italy because of its important Pleistocene herpetofauna and proximity to Sicily and Italy…. I. Northwest Division: Ireland and Britain, p. 130 II. French Division: France and Monaco, p. 142 III. Southwest Division: Spain, p. 149 IV. Northcentral Division: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, p. 157 V. Northeast Division: Poland and the Czech Republic, p. 175 VI. Southeast Division: Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia: (Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia), and Greece, p. 182… Pleistocene herpetofaunal records in Ireland are rare and consist mainly of records of Rana temporaria. More work needs to be done in this critical area for the study of the fragmentation of ranges of herpetological species in the Pleistocene.


2009 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cajus G. Diedrich

AbstractUpper Pleistocene remains of the Ice Age steppe lion Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) have been found in the Perick Caves, Sauerland Karst, NW Germany. Bones from many hyenas and their imported prey dating from the Lower to Middle Weichselian have also been recovered from the Perick Cave hyena den. These are commonly cracked or exhibit deep chew marks. The absence of lion cub bones, in contrast to hyena and cave bear cub remains in the Perick Caves, and other caves of northern Germany, excludes the possibility that P. leo spelaea used the cave for raising cubs. Only in the Wilhelms Cave was a single skeleton of a cub found in a hyena den. Evidence of the chewing, nibbling and cracking of lion bones and crania must have resulted from the importation and destruction of lion carcasses (4% of the prey fauna). Similar evidence was preserved at other hyena den caves and open air sites in Germany. The bone material from the Perick and other Central European caves points to antagonistic hyena and lion conflicts, similar to clashes of their modern African relatives.


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