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Fossil Arthropods from a Full-Glacial Site in Northeastern Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donatella Foddai  and
Alessandro Minelli
Donatella Foddai
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, I 35131, Padova, Italy
Alessandro Minelli
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, I 35131, Padova, Italy
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Abstract

Fossil remains of beetles and oribatid mites from a peat deposit dated 18,870 ± 300 yr B.P. near Verona, northeastern Italy, represent the first insect fauna of its kind from the last glacial maximum to be described from Italy. The assemblage includes the ground beetle Amara alpina, whose distribution today in Europe is restricted to mountains in Scandinavia and Scotland. Ecological requirements and geographic distribution of recent populations of the identified species suggest mesic habitats with standing water and peat bogs during the glacial maximum. The paleoenvironment was comparable to present-day lowland moors in Scandinavia or mesic environments above 1000 m altitude on the southern slopes of the Alps. The climate is inferred to have been colder and wetter than today. Mean July temperature may have been 8-9°C lower than at present.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , May 1994 , pp. 336 - 342
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University of Washington

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