Also known as Meuse Levels, Beer canal
Where: Netherlands (52.0° N, 4.1° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 4.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: salvage,
• dredge spoils
Primary reference: Y. Vervoort-Kerkhoff and T. van Kolfschoten. 1988. Pleistocene and Holocene mammalian faunas from the Maasvlakete near Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Meded. Werkgr. Tert. Kwart. Geol 25(1):87-98 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 109704: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.05.2011, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dicerorhinus etruscus brachycephalus rhinoceros | |
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis
"Archidiskodon meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth | |
Sorex (Drepanosorex) sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934 red-toothed shrew | |
Desmana thermalis Kormos 1930 Russian desman | |
Lynx lynx Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian lynx | |
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Ursus aff. denigeri bear | |
Aonyx antiqua Blainville 1841 otter | |
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Cervidae indet., "Cervalces latifrons" = Cervalces latifrons, "Alces latifrons" = Cervalces latifrons3, Dama dama3, Megaloceros sp.3
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
"Cervalces latifrons" = Cervalces latifrons Johnson 1874 stag moose | |
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Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Mimomys savini vole | |
Trogontherium cuvieri Owen 1846 beaver | |
Reptilia | |
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