Bad Frankenhausen bei Sangerhausen: Middle Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach 1799)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. germanicus
Equus suessenbornensis Wüst 1901
recombined as Equus (Sussemionus) suessenbornensis
Mammalia - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison ? schoetensacki
Bison priscus (Bojanus 1827)
Praeovibos priscus Staudinger 1908
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig 1885)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Sachsen-Anhalt
Coordinates: 51.3° North, 11.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.4° North, 11.1° 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, earliest Arvicola cantianus fauna. Cold stage fauna - elsterian?
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:50257
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-05-11 05:36:10 Last modified:2005-05-11 08:38:43
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-11 05:36:10
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]