Karlich level E, im Neuwieder Becken: Middle Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Columella columella
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758
Sorex (Drepanosorex) sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys savini
Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902
small form
Dicrostonyx sp. Gloger 1841
Clethrionomys glareolus
synonym of Myodes
Microtus (Terricola) gregaloides
Microtus (Terricola) cf. hintoni
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798
Microtus arvalis (Pallas 1779)
Microtus arvalis/agrestis
Pliomys episcopalis
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Holman 1998
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768
Holman 1998
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pupilla muscorum (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Hygromiidae
Trichia hispida
synonym of Trochulus
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Succineidae
Succinea oblonga
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Valloniidae
Vallonia tenuilabris
Vallonia costata
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Rheinland-Pfalz
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 7.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.5° North, 7.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local bed:E
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Neuwied Basin
Stratigraphy comments: Level E is in the middle of the Karlich sequence (site goes to level Jb). Dated to earliest Middle Pleistocene (overlies the Brunhes/Matuyama boundary). Early Cromerian (zones 1-2), Late Biharian, similar to West Runton upper freshwater bed, Sussenborn, etc.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: loess.
Environment:loess
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: There are two different mollusc assembalges in level E, the majority are characteristic of loess deposits and indicate cold glacial conditions, but a few samples from the base indicate more humid conditions - these are Lymnaea sp., Planorbis planorbis, Gyraulus laevis and Valvata pulchella.
Taxonomic list comments:Contains reworked fragments of interglacial mollusca such as Aegopinella cf. minor, Ruthenica filograna, Cepaea nemoralis and Ena montana.
Metadata
Also known as:Kärlich Schicht E, im Neuwieder Becken Kaerlich
Database number:36013
Authorizer:A. Turner, E. Vlachos Enterer:H. O'Regan, E. Vlachos
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-01-13 08:40:20 Last modified:2005-05-10 08:26:53
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-13 08:40:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13430.PACED T. van Kolfschoten and E. Turner. 1996. Early Middle Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Karlich (Kaerlich) and Miesenheim I and their biostratigraphical implications. In C. Turner , ed., The early Middle Pleistocene in Europe, Balkema, Rotterdam 227-253 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

66368 J. A. Holman. 1998. Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics 1-265 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
9643PACED 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]