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144 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEOBIOLOGY<br />

FIGURE 3.—Area of sympatry of seabirds from Gorham's Cave, Spain, layer K (Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Alle<br />

alle, Pinguinus impennis). (• = fossil site.)<br />

30,000 yrs. BP) (Larsen, 1984; Larsen et al., 1987). This has a<br />

rich seabird fauna including Fulmarus glacialis, Rissa tridacty-<br />

la, Pagophila eburnea, Alle alle, Uria aalge, Uria lomvia, Cepphus<br />

grylle, and Fratercula arctica. The site is a sea cave without<br />

any trace of human presence, and the fauna likely samples<br />

mostly species breeding in the vicinity. This is the only fauna<br />

containing truly arctic taxa, and the area of sympatry is a rather<br />

narrow area stretching from the seas north of Iceland to the west<br />

coast of Spitzbergen plus the waters off Northwest Novaya<br />

Zemlya (Figure 4). The areas of "best fit" with regard to breeding<br />

birds are Jan Mayen, Bear Island, Prince Charles' Foreland<br />

(all three with all species except Pagophila eburnea), and<br />

southern Spitzbergen (all species except Uria aalge). The presence<br />

of Fratercula arctica and Uria aalge as well as some nonavian<br />

taxa (e.g., Lutra lutra (Linnaeus), Pollachius virens (Linnaeus),<br />

Brosmius brosme (Ascanius)), however, indicates that<br />

water from the North Atlantic Current must have penetrated the<br />

Norwegian Sea for at least part of the Alesund interstadial.

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