Bornhausen bei Seesen am Harz (Pleistocene of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (51.9° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Middle Pleistocene, Earliest Arvicola cantianus fauna, cold stage fauna - Elsterian?

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. von Koenigswald and W.-D. Heinrich. 1999. Mittelpleistozane Saugetierfaunen aus Mitteleuropa - der Versuch einer biostratigraphischen Zuordnung. Kaupia 9:53-112 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50247: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 11.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus trogontherii Pohlig 1885 mammoth
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach 1799 wooly rhino