Hullern Cave: Pleistocene, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas primigenius
Blumenbach 1799
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recombined as Mammuthus primigenius | ||||||||||
not described but reported present | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison priscus
(Bojanus 1827)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
skull | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Rangifer sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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not described but reported present | ||||||||||
Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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not described but reported present | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | North Rhine |
Coordinates: | 52.0° North, 7.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.0° North, 7.5° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | random |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Collection size: | 1 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 34536 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Hunter | Enterer: | M. Hall |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-09-07 14:53:06 | Last modified: | 2006-08-14 01:24:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-07 14:53:06 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9116. | 5% 33680 | W. Lang. 1979. Ein pleistozaner Bisonschadel aus der Niederterasse der Stever bei Haltern/Westfalen. Aufschluss Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie und Geologie 30:266-268 [J. Hunter/M. Hall/J. Alroy] |