Wurzburg-Schalksberg: Middle Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephantidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Gervais 1850)
Hyaena brevirostris Gervais 1850
Mäuser 1990
    = Pachycrocuta brevirostris Gervais 1850
Werdelin and Turner 1996
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Homotherium moravicum
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Meles sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Xenocyon lycaonoides Kretzoi 1938
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
Canis lupus mosbachensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus mosbachensis
Equus ? suessenbornensis Wüst 1901
recombined as Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis
Equus sp. (? suessenbornensis)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841
Mäuser 1990
Stephanorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
Hippopotamus amphibius antiquus
Mammalia - Cervidae
Alces latifrons (Johnson 1874)
recombined as Cervalces latifrons
? Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868
Cervidae indet. (? Eucladoceros)
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
? Megaloceros sp. Brookes 1828
Cervidae indet. (? Megaloceros)
Capreolus suessenbornensis
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison schoetensacki
Bison priscus (Bojanus 1827)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758
Trogontherium cuvieri Owen 1846
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana temporaria Linnaeus 1758
Holman 1998
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]
108795% 16660M. 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]
10899PACED 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]