N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 257/3, 257– 265 Ursus arctos on Lombardian Prealps: The natural trap of Cima Paradiso Cave (Campo dei fiori, Varese) Fabio Bona and Loredana Pagani, Milano
BONA, F. & PAGANI, L. (2010): Ursus arctos on Lombardian prealps: the natural trap of Cima
Paradiso cave (Campo dei fiori, Varese). – N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 257: 257–265; Stuttgart. Abstract: 367 bones of Ursus arctos were collected in Cima Paradiso Cave (Campo dei Fiori, Varese)
in 1989. These finds represent an extraordinary discovery because of the rarity of brown bear remains
studied from Italian ca ves. The occurrence of these bones is due to the confor mation of the ca ve,
in particular to the depth of the chimne y cave entrance (about 25 m), on the bottom of w hich the
bones have accumulated. This aspect and the absence of other known entrances suggest that the Cima
Paradiso Cave was a natural trap, the only one documented yet from Italy. The morphometric analyses
of the bones indicate that the specimens from the Cima Paradiso Cave fall into the size range of Late
Pleistocene brown bears, thus confirming the calibrated 14C dating of 18.000 years BP. Key words: Upper Pleistocene, Ursus arctos, natural trap, Northern Italy. 1. Introduction
(SALA 1990; CAPASSO BARBATO et al. 1990; B ON et
al. 1991). In contrast, all o ver northern Italy caves
In 1989 the speleolo gists of CAI Varese and of the
containing rests of another species of bears, the ca ve
Remeron group of the CAI Ga virate recovered 372
bear (Ursus spelaeus), are common (e. g., Caverna
fossil bones from the Cima Paradiso Cave, located on
Generosa, Como (BONA 2004a, b; BONA et al. 2007),
Monte Campo dei Fiori (Varese). 367 of which belong
Fontana Marella, Varese (PEREGO et al. 2001; BONA et
to Ursus arctos and all are collected directl y on the
al. 2008), Buco dell’Orso di Laglio, Como (CORNALIA
surface of the ca ve at the end of the entrance pit
1859) in Lombardy; Covoli di Velo, Verona (ZORZIN et
(unfortunately without the guide of a palaeontolo gist;
al. 2005), Grotta del Broion, Vicenza (SALA 1980) in
hence many important information on the original
Veneto; Grotta delle “Pale Rosse” (BONA et al. 2004)
position of the bones is lost). This discovery is unique
in Trentino, and Grotta delle Conturines (R ABEDER
in Italian palaeontology. Although the brown bear was
widespread in the past in e very woody land of the
The rarity of fossil Ursus arctos remains is related
Lombardian Prealps, in the studied ca ves of this area
to the different ethics between the two species and
very few remains of this species have been recorded.
in particular to the choice of the type of their winter
All over Italy many caves proliferated bro wn bear
refuges. The brown bear usually prefers small ones
remains, but usually only few bones for each cave are
with a lo w entrance ca vity, whereas the ca ve bear
surely recognized as belonging to the bro wn bear
often used very big holes (BOSCAGLI 1986; OSTI 1999;
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