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Paleoecological Analysis of the Early Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna from Razvodje and Tatinja draga (Croatia).

In this paper are presented the results of paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate assemblages from bone-breccias found in Croatia along the Adriatic coast near Razvodje (Lower Early Pleistocene) and Tatinja draga (Middle Early Pleistocene). Because of the differences in the community structure and frequencies of registered taxa they are designed as “Lagurus-Podarcis sicula assemblage” (Tatinja draga) and “Allophaiomys-Microtus-Lacerta agilis assemblage” (Razvodje). Analysis also shows that at both localities the arid biocoenoses are accompanied with mesophyllous areas, bushes and open landscape biotopes developed under temperate and periodically humid climatic conditions, as well as similarity with contemporary faunas of Italy, Austria and southeastern Europe. Endemic small vertebrate taxa and the presence of species living today in the area indicate that the main features of recent fauna were formed during the Early Pleistocene.

Early Pleistocene; paleoecology; vertebrate fauna; bone-breccias; Razvodje; Tatinja draga; Adriatic coast; Croatia

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