%0 Journal Article
%A Schreve, D.C.
%A Keen, D.H.
%A Limondin-Lozouet, Nicole
%A Auguste, Patrick
%A Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio
%A Ubilla, Martín
%A Matoshko, A.
%A Bridgland, David R.
%A Westaway, Rob
%T Progress in faunal correlation of Late Cenozoic fluvial sequences2000–4: the report of the IGCP 449 biostratigraphy subgroup
%D 2007
%@ 0277-3791
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49645
%X Vertebrate and invertebrate faunal biostratigraphy is a well-tested method for establishing relative chronologies for fluviatile sequencesthat has proved useful in many parts of the world. The robust bones and teeth of large mammals are commonly found in fluviatiledeposits, whereas small vertebrates can be readily recovered through systematic sieving of calcareous sediments, as can molluscs, theother major faunal group that has been used for biostratigraphical analysis of fluvial sequences. Because of their rapid and quantifiablerates of evolution, extinction, body mass change and dispersal during the Late Cenozoic, mammals are especially useful for ordering thefragmentary terrestrial sequence of interglacials and glacials, and proposing correlation with the global marine climatostratigraphicrecord. Other groups (e.g. reptiles and amphibians, ostracods) are as yet only in the initial stages of development as a dating tool,whereas some (e.g. fish, birds) still require substantial development in order to fully explore their utility. As part of IGCP 449, vertebrateand molluscan assemblages have made important contributions to datasets from a number of areas, notably northern France, centralGermany, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine. Further south, mammalian assemblages have proved useful in separating discreteperiods of climatic change in Iberia and Syria. At greater distances from the core area of fluvial biostratigraphical archives, significantcontributions have come from South America (Uruguay River), South Africa (Vaal) and Australia (Riverine Plain and Lake Eyredrainage basin).
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