New data on age of the Pleistocene fauna from the Trlica locality (Montenegro, Central Balkans) and its correlation with other faunas of Europe

Abstract

New data specifying the age of the fauna from the Trlica locality near Pljevlja (Montenegro, Central Balkans) derived from material of excavations in 2010–2014 are discussed with the biostratigraphic analysis of two defined faunal levels TRL11–10 and TRL6–5 and its correlation with other faunas of Europe. It is shown that the fauna from the lower faunal level (TRL11–10) is correlative with the second half of the Early Pleistocene (Late Villafranchian, Zone MNQ 18, while the fauna from the upper faunal level existed in the post-Villafranchian time and its age is estimated to be the early Middle Pleistocene (MIS 19), not older.