Regional overviews on the last glacial larger mammal faunas of northern Eurasia (Mammuthus-Coelodonta faunal complex) - A bibliography of selected papers

Abstract

The latest part of Pleistocene - the last glacial and its tempora! equivalents - contains the most complete worldwide network of palaeontological information, often in the form of surface-outcropping sediments. Thousands of such localities are known, from which fossil mammal remains have been recovered and studied scientifically. During the past two decades on particular more and more regional overviews have been produced, summarizing the published knowledge from different areas. Special interest has focussed on the cold-period Mammuthus-Coelodonta Fauna! Complex of Eurasia (= Late Pleistocene European-Siberian Fauna! Block = Mammoth Fauna etc.). This complex, which ranges from the Atlantic Ocean lo the Far East and western Beringia - and in part further into the New World - represents the most advanced stage of a cold resistant continental animai community in the evolutionary history of lite on earth. In order to support future multiregionally-oriented investigations, the most important regional overview papers on larger mammals of the Last Glacial Eurasian Mammuthus-Coe/odonta faunas are listed hereafter in geographic arder. lt is clear that the distribution range can be covered almost entirely, and thai differences in taxonomic procedure in the published sludies do noi disturb the generai picture.