Ehringsdorf, basis of Unteren Travertin (Lower Travertine) (Pleistocene of Germany)

Where: Thüringen, Germany (51.0° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 11.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Lower Pleistocene

•Deposition of the sediments during glacial (pebbles of the Ilm), most probably Riß-glacial and the beginning of the following Interglacial (marl)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified conglomerate and marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: H.-D. Kahlke. 1958. Die jungpleistozänen Säugetierfaunen aus dem Travertingebiet von Taubach-Weimar-Ehringsdorf (The Early Plestocene mammalian fauna from the travetin-area of Taubach-Weimar-Ehringsdorf). Alt-Thüringen 3:97-130 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45063: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 01.10.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Elaphe longissima2 Laurenti 1768 colubrid snake
 Squamata - Natricidae
Natrix natrix2 Linnaeus 1758 water snake
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis2 Linnaeus 1758 European pond turtle
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach 1799 wooly rhino
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius1 Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth
Amphibia
 Salientia - Ranidae