Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 2012, Nr 10, pages 65-68

Northern Ukraine: Faunistical Evidences of the Pleistocene Glaciations

Popova L. V.

Summary:
Ground squirrels Spermophilus severskensis from the Novgorod-Seversky locality had acquired origi-
nal trophic adaptations, which advanced him under conditions of periglacial ecosystems, but doomed
him to extinction in the beginning of the Holocene.

Keywords:
geological heritage, Novgorod-Seversky ground squirrel, teeth system, adaptations to the perigla-
cial conditions

Address:
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, faculty of Geology

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