The Ice Age through the Eyes of the Zoologist II. Glacial Environments in the Light of Analyses of Fossil Zoocoenoses

Ložek. V., Horáček I.

Pleniglacial assemblages of mammals and gastropods from both lowlands and highlands sites are indicative of predominantly open landscapes under severe continental climate, however, with comparatively warm summers, i. e. of environments which are considerably different from that in the present-day subpolar zone as well as from paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on periglacial phenomena. The glacial climate became increasingly warmer towards the southeast as documentated by fossil records of demanding species in the southern foothills of the West Carpathians, particularly in the Slovak Karst.

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