Mammalia

III IBERIAN PRIMATOLOGICAL CONFERENCE, V PORTUGUESE PRIMATOLOGICAL CONFERENCE AND IX SPANISH PRIMATOLOGICAL CONFERENCE - Almada, Portugal

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Fourten Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) and two crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophaga) were immobilised at Drescher Inlet (Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf), eastern Weddell Sea coast, between January and February 1990 using a combination of ketamine, xylazine, and diazepam. Eleven Weddell seals were drugged once, and two and one were drugged two and three times each, coming to a total of 18 immobilisation procedures. Another 16 seals were immobilised between January and February 1992.

Investigations at a Late Weichselian freshwater basin in northwestern Jutland, Denmark, yielded a fairly rich assemblage of vertebrate remains, mostly bones and teeth of small mammals. The remains are primarily allochthonous and the bones have been subjected to different taphonomic pathways and agents. AMS 14C-dates on terrestrial organic remains provided ages of Middle to Late Aller?d time. Identifications revealed the first fossil record in Scandinavia of Rana arvalis, Sorex minutus, Ochotona cf. pusilla, Microtus gregalis, Microtus oeconomus, and Sicista cf. betulinu. Spermophilus cf.

Pollen, plant macrofossil, loss-on-ignition and radiocarbon analyses of a 1.4-m section in thermokarst topography from Faddeyevskiy Island (75?20'N, 143?50'E, 30 m elevation) provides new information on Late Pleistocene interstadial environmental history of this high Arctic region. Conventional radiocarbon dates (25,700 ? 1000, 32,780 ? 500, 35,200 ? 650 yr BP) and two AMS dates (29,950 ? 660 and 42,990 ? 1280 yr BP) indicate that the deposits accumulated during the Kargian (Boutellier) interval.

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Convened during the International Year of Biodiversity - Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia

a database of orthologous mammalian markers, based on the EnsEMBL data