Ehringsdorf, Pariser Horizont (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.

•Kahlke 1975: Unterer Travertin-Pariser Horizont is the border between interglacial and the beginning of the last glaciation. Pariser Horizont-Oberer Travertin I (upper travertine I)-Pseudopariser Horizont- Oberer Travertin II (upper travertine II) represent the beginning of the last glaciation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

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 45067: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 01.10.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Triturus vulgaris2 Linnaeus 1758 smooth newt
Triturus cristatus2 Fitzinger 1843 newt
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates fuscus2 Laurenti 1768 Common Eurasian spadefoot toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 frog
Rana temporaria2 Linnaeus 1758 common frog
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo bufo2 Linnaeus 1758 toad
Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Anguis fragilis2 Linneaus 1758 Slow worm
 Squamata - Colubridae
Coronella austriaca2 Laurenti 1768 smooth snake
Elaphe longissima2 Laurenti 1768 colubrid snake
Natrix natrix2 Linnaeus 1758 water snake
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Lacerta agilis2 Linneaus 1758 Sand lizard
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius1 Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison priscus Bojanus 1827 bison
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
"Megaceros giganteus" = Megaloceros, Rangifer tarandus
"Megaceros giganteus" = Megaloceros Irish elk
germaniae
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer