Abstract
The paper presents a study of the fossil microfauna from the Logovo Gieny Cave, northwestern Altai, Russia. The microfauna, with 30 identified species comes from six layers of the upper unit of the cave's central hall that was excavated in summer 2008. Selected for the morphotype analyses, three species, Alticola strelzowi, Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) gregalis and Microtus oeconomus, showed that their parameters (Layer 6-2) correspond with those found in the Late Pleistocene site of Altai region. New data did not demonstrate any abrupt successions of the mammal communities and contained similar species in all the layers indicative of the steppe environments. However, the faunal assemblages revealed different climatic conditions, which, combined with previously known radiocarbon dates, were aligned with the GS3 (MIS 2) and GS 6–7 (MIS 3) phases of the Greenland ice-core records.
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