Jänschwalde open lignite mine (Pleistocene of Germany)

Where: Brandenburg, Germany (51.9° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Eemian, MIS 5e other zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; green mudstone

• olive green gyttja

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected in 2012

Collection methods: surface (in situ), ,

• Stored at the Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar (IQW) of the Senckenberg Research Institute.

Primary reference: R.-D. Kahlke, U. Fritz, and U. Kierdorf. 2014. Badger (Meles meles) predation on European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) during the Eemian interglacial (MIS 5e). Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironments 1-13 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198613: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 28.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis
Emys orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 European pond turtle
IQW 2012/39 617, partial shell
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Meles meles
Meles meles Linnaeus 1758 European badger
inferred from predation marks on the turtle shell