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: Unterer Travertin Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Lower Pleistocene;

•According to the fauna the deposition was during the late phase of an interglacial. After Guenther 1975 it is Eem-interglacial or the beginning of the following Weichsel-glaciation.

•Kahlke 1975: Unterer Travertin-Pariser Horizont is the border between interglacial and the beginning of the new glaciation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; travertine

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 45065: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 01.10.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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