Also known as See ufer
Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.5° N, 7.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• The fauna lies below the brockentuff, which is dated to the Holsteinian (0.3ma), Middle Middle Pleistocene.
Environment/lithology: loess
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Wooded environment, interglacial conditions based on micromammals (94 specimens). Molluscs indicate a more or less desnely wooded environment with damp areas (numbers not given).
Primary reference: T. van Kolfschoten and E. Turner. 1996. Early Middle Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Karlich (Kaerlich) and Miesenheim I and their biostratigraphical implications. In C. Turner , ed., The early Middle Pleistocene in Europe, Balkema, Rotterdam 227-253 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50194: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 10.05.2005
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cepaea sp. Held 1838 slug | |
Acanthinula aculeata slug | |
Cochlodina laminata slug
Clausilia pumila slug | |
Succinea oblonga amber snail | |
Carychium tridentatum snail | |
Mammalia | |
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840 dormouse | |
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus, Apodemus aff. maastrichtiensis
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Apodemus aff. maastrichtiensis Eurasian field mouse | |
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