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: 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 45068: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 01.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Lutra lutra, "Putorius putorius" = Mustela putorius
Lutra lutra Linnaeus 1758 European otter
"Putorius putorius" = Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758 European polecat | |
Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach 1799 wooly rhino | |
Mus sp. Linnaeus 1758 house mouse | |
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"Myoxus glis" = Glis glis
"Myoxus glis" = Glis glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse |