Dyuktai Cave (unknown layers) (Pleistocene to of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (59.3° N, 132.6° E: paleocoordinates 59.3° N, 132.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: N. V. Zelenkov, E. N. Kurochkin, A. A. Karhu and P. Ballmann. 2008. Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai cave site of Yakutia, eastern Siberia. Oryctos 7:217-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194812: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
Falco columbarius Linnaeus 1758 merlin
Falco subbuteo Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian hobby
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Accipitridae indet. Viellot 1816 hawk
Buteo lagopus Pontoppidan 1763 rough-legged hawk
 Gaviiformes - Gaviidae
Gavia sp. Forster 1788 loon
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Aythya sp., "Melanitta deglandi" = Melanitta fusca deglandi
Aythya sp. Boie 1822 pochard
"Melanitta deglandi" = Melanitta fusca deglandi Bonaparte 1850 white-winged scoter
 Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae
Podiceps auritus Linnaeus 1758 horned grebe
Podiceps nigricollis Brehm 1831 black-necked grebe
 Gruiformes - Gruidae
"Grus leucogeranus" = Leucogeranus leucogeranus
"Grus leucogeranus" = Leucogeranus leucogeranus Pallas 1773 Siberian crane
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Strix sp. Linnaeus 1758 true owl
Strix uralensis Pallas 1771 Ural owl
Asio flammeus Pontoppidan 1763 short-eared owl
Asio otus Linnaeus 1758 long-eared owl
 Passeriformes - Fringillidae
Fringillidae indet. Vigors 1825 finch
 Passeriformes - Turdidae
Zoothera dauma Latham 1790 scaly thrush
 Passeriformes - Motacillidae
Motacillidae indet. Horsfield 1821 perching bird
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvus corone Linnaeus 1758 carrion crow
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Limosa limosa Linnaeus 1758 black-tailed godwit
Phalaropus fulicarius Linnaeus 1758 red phalarope
"Philomachus pugnax" = Calidris pugnax Linnaeus 1758 ruff
Xenus cinereus Güldenstädt 1775 Terek sandpiper
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Sterna sp. Linnaeus 1758 tern
Larus canus Linnaeus 1758 mew gull