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FIGURE 6.—Area of sympatry of seabirds from Arene Candide, Italy, layer P9 (Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Uria
aalge, Alca torda, Fratercula arctica). (• = fossil site.)
lacrocorax aristotelis (P9), Uria aalge (P4,5,7,9), Alca torda
(P4,9), and Fratercula arctica (P5,9). The areas of sympatry
for the faunas in layers P4, P5, and P9 are rather similar and
suggest that conditions approximating those around the British
Isles at the present time prevailed off the Ligurian coast during
the glacial. The area of sympatry for layer P9, which has the
largest number of seabird species (4), is shown in Figure 6.
Conditions may have been slightly milder when layer P7 was
deposited (Figure 7).
The Upper Paleolithic fauna from Cueva de Nerja (UP layers)
near Malaga, Spain (Figure 8), is dated to the interval
16,520-13,350 yrs. BP (Hernandez, 1995) and falls within the
later part of the pleniglacial, including the Lascaux interstadial
and the Dryas 1 stadial. The unusually rich seabird fauna consists
of Calonectris diomedea, Puffinus puffinus, P. gravis, P.
griseus, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, Morus bassanus, Uria aalge,
Alca torda, and Pinguinus impennis. This fauna has only a
very small area of sympatry off Southwest Ireland. Such a