Upper Pleistocene Gulo gulo (Linnaeus 1758) skeletal remains from the open air loess site Praha-Podbaba (Czech Republic)

In the 19th century, an incomplete skeleton of an older adult male wolverine Gulo gulo was discovered at the open air loess site on the Moldau River terraces at Praha-Podbaba (Czech Republic). Using stratigraphy, micromammals and megafauna, it has been dated to the lower part of the Upper Pleistocene. During the first cold period in the Weichselian, the mammoth fauna such as M. primigenius, C. antiquitatis, B, priscus, C. elaphus, R. tarandus was mixed with the alpine mega fauna of Capra ibex and the carnivores P. leo spelaea, Ursus spelaeus and the here-described G. gulo. The taphonimic situation is unclear, because the bone accumulation at Podbaba may reflect a mix of a Middle Palaeolithic human site and hyena den or prey depot overlapping. Most likely, in different periods, hyena dens and human camp or hunter sites were both present along the Moldava River.