Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.5° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Channal fill may belong to Riss-glaciation.

•The channal fill is just above the Leubsdorfer terrace, which belong to the fourth last glaciation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; unlithified, fine-grained, brown, argillaceous, sandy, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• Fossil(s) in one of these museums: 1. Staatliches Amt für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Koblenz.

•2. Naturhistorisches Museum, Mainz. 3. Private collections

Primary reference: K. Brunnacker, H. Löhr, W. Boenigk, J. Puissegur, and F. Poplin. 1975. Quartär-Aufschlüsse bei Ariendorf am unteren Mittelrhein (Quaternary exposures at Ariendorf on the lower Middle Rhine). Mainzer naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 14:93-141 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43018: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 09.08.2004

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