Abstract
The skull of a buffalo from the Upper Pleistocene deposits in the Lukerino village near the city of Kolomna (Moscow Region) was found to belong to Bubalus murrensis (Berckhemer, 1927). In Western Europe, this species occurred in the Middle and Late Pleistocene during interglacials. In the Pleistocene of the East European Plain, the fossil Bubalus is discovered for the first time. According to the radiocarbon (14C) analysis of the collagen, the fossil dates to the Allerød interstadial (the age is ca. 12 800 years).
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the employees of the Museum of Kolomna for the opportunity to study the skull of the buffalo from Lukerino and to E.P. Zazovskaya for help in determining its absolute age, as well as to Prof. W. von Koenigswald and Dr. R. Ziegler for sending us data on B. murrensis. Radiocarbon dating of the specimens was done by the Laboratory of radiocarbon dating and electron microscopy of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Center for Applied Isotope Research, University of Georgia (Athens, United States).
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This study was partly supported by the Basic Research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences “The Evolution of the Organic World: The Role and Influence of Planetary Processes” and also by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 18-74-10081 “The Evolution of Vertebrate Communities in the Late Cenozoic of Eastern Europe”).
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Vislobokova, I.A., Tarasenko, K.K. & Lopatin, A.V. First Discovery of the European Buffalo Bubalus murrensis (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from the Pleistocene of the Russian Plain. Dokl Biol Sci 491, 31–34 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001249662002012X
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