Wurzburg-Schalksberg: Middle Pleistocene, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephantidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Hyaena sp.
Brisson 1762
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Pachycrocuta brevirostris
(Gervais 1850)
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Hyaena brevirostris
Gervais 1850
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Mäuser 1990 | |||||||||
= Pachycrocuta brevirostris
Gervais 1850
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Werdelin and Turner 1996 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Felis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Homotherium moravicum
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Meles sp.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus deningeri
Reichenau 1904
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Xenocyon lycaonoides
Kretzoi 1938
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Canis lupus
Linnaeus 1758
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Canis lupus mosbachensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus mosbachensis
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Equus ? suessenbornensis
Wüst 1901
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recombined as Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis | ||||||||||
Equus sp. (? suessenbornensis) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Mäuser 1990 | |||||||||
Stephanorhinus etruscus
(Falconer 1868)
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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Hippopotamus amphibius antiquus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Alces latifrons
(Johnson 1874)
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recombined as Cervalces latifrons | ||||||||||
? Eucladoceros sp.
Falconer 1868
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Cervidae indet. (? Eucladoceros) | ||||||||||
Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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? Megaloceros sp.
Brookes 1828
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Cervidae indet. (? Megaloceros) | ||||||||||
Capreolus suessenbornensis
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison schoetensacki
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Bison priscus
(Bojanus 1827)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor fiber
Linnaeus 1758
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Trogontherium cuvieri
Owen 1846
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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Rana temporaria
Linnaeus 1758
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | Bayern |
Coordinates: | 49.8° North, 10.0° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 49.8° North, 9.9° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Middle Pleistocene, Mimomys-Arvicola transition, Biharian. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine,pebbly unlithified silty sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | unlithified conglomeratic siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The fossils are found in fluvial fine sand-layers with siltic components and some pebbles or between these fine sand and a cover of pebbly loam. | |
Geology comments: A fluvial transport of the fossils can be excluded. They seem to be parautochthonous, gathered by carnivores and maybe early humans. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Temporal resolution: | condensed |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Wuerzburg-Schalksberg, Würzberg-Schalksberg | ||
Database number: | 36220 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner, J. Alroy, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, S. Kuemmell, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED,vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-01-19 07:11:41 | Last modified: | 2005-04-08 06:27:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-19 07:11:41 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9643. | PACED | W. von Koenigswald and W.-D. Heinrich. 1999. Mittelpleistozane Saugetierfaunen aus Mitteleuropa - der Versuch einer biostratigraphischen Zuordnung. Kaupia 9:53-112 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
66368 | J. A. Holman. 1998. Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics 1-265 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
10879 | 5% 16660 | M. Mäuser. 1990. Alces latifrons (JOHNSON, 1874) (Mammalia, Cervidae) von der altpleistozänen Säugetier-Fundstelle Würzburg-Schalksberg (Unterfranken, BRD). (Alces latifrons (JOHNSON, 1874) (Mammalia, Cervidae) from the lower Pleistocene mammal locality Würzburg-Schalksberg (Unterfranken, Germany). Quartaerpalaeontologie 8:205-214 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell] |
10899 | PACED | L. Werdelin and A. Turner. 1996. The fossil and living Hyaenidae of Africa: present status. in K. M. Stewart and K.L. Semour (eds.) Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic mammals: Tributes to the career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 637-659 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |