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SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEOBIOLOGY<br />

FIGURE 9.—Area of sympatry of seabirds from Blomvag, Norway (Fulmarus glacialis, Puffinus puffinus, Somateria<br />

mollissima, Rissa tridactyla, Alca torda, Uria aalge, U. lomvia, Cepphus grylle, Pinguinus impennis).<br />

(•=fossil site.)<br />

have been quite close to Blomvag. Indeed, the site was temporarily<br />

overrun by the ice at some time after deposition of the<br />

fauna but before the Dryas 3 stadial.<br />

The fauna in layer B at Skjonghelleren in Sunnmore, Norway,<br />

is C14-dated to either the end of the Allerod interstadial<br />

or the Dryas 3 stadial (11,510± 190-10,360± 170 yrs. BP)<br />

(Larsen, 1984; Larsen et al., 1987). The fauna consists of Somateria<br />

mollissima, Alle alle, Uria sp., Cepphus grylle, and<br />

Fratercula arctica. Unfortunately, this is not a very informative<br />

set of taxa and only indicates boreal or low arctic conditions,<br />

which might fit either a cool late phase of Allerod or the<br />

early part of the Dryas 3 stadial.<br />

There also is a fauna from Scotland that cannot be dated with<br />

any precision but is most likely from the late glacial. This is the<br />

fauna from layer 5 in Creag Nan Uamh cave, which has been<br />

considered to be either very late Pleistocene or earliest Ho-

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