Ehringsdorf, Oberer Travertin I (Upper Travertine I): Early/Lower Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Colubridae
Coronella austriaca Laurenti 1768
Holman 1998
Natrix natrix Linnaeus 1758
Holman 1998
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguis fragilis Linneaus 1758
Holman 1998
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammonteus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)
    = Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799
Guenther 1975
some of them are ssp: trogontherii
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus cf. spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Putorius eversmanni (Lesson 1827)
original and current combination Mustela eversmanni
Martes martes (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
? Crocuta spelaea
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Asinus hydruntinus
synonym of Equus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach 1799)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Megaceros giganteus
synonym of Megaloceros
ssp: germaniae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
? Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus 1758)
Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus 1758)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Thüringen
Coordinates: 51.0° North, 11.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° North, 11.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oberer Travertin I
Stratigraphy comments: 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: travertine
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: travertine
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: travertine
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45069
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:S. Kuemmell, E. Vlachos
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-01 04:00:16 Last modified:2008-12-16 20:26:42
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-01 04:00:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11725. 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]

Secondary references:

11726 E. W. Guenther. 1975. Die Backenzähne der Elefanten von Ehringsdorf bei Weimar (The chewing teeth of elefants from Ehringsdorf, Weimar). Abhandlungen des zentralen geologischen Instituts, Paläonologische Ahandlungen 23(2):399-441 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
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]
117315% 36260H.-D. Kahlke. 1975. Zur chronologischen Stellung der Travertine von Weimar-Ehringsdorf; zur biostratigraphischen Grenze zwischen Interglazial und Glazial im mitteleuropäischen Kontinentalbereich auf der Grundlage der Großsäugerassoziationen (The chronologic sequence of the travertines from Weimar-Ehringsdorf). Abhandlungen des zentralen geologischen Instituts 23(2):591-596 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]