Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.1° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° N, 8.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Late Early Pleistocene, post Jaramillo Event, pre Brunhes/Matuyama boundary.
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Contains warm phase taxa.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50000: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 04.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
Mammuthus trogontherii Pohlig 1885 mammoth | |
Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Megaloceros (Praemegaceros) verticornis, Capreolus suessenbornensis, "Alces latifrons" = Cervalces latifrons, aff. Cervus elaphoides, Cervus elaphus
Megaloceros (Praemegaceros) verticornis Dawkins 1872 deer
"Alces latifrons" = Cervalces latifrons Johnson 1874 stag moose | |
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
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Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904 bear | |
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762 hyaena | |
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Trogontherium cuvieri Owen 1846 beaver |