Karlich 'See-Ufer', microfauna below brockentuff (Pleistocene of Germany)

Also known as See ufer

Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.5° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 7.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• The fauna lies below the brockentuff, which is dated to the Holsteinian (0.3ma), Middle Middle Pleistocene.

Environment/lithology: loess

• Loess.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Wooded environment, interglacial conditions based on micromammals (94 specimens). Molluscs indicate a more or less desnely wooded environment with damp areas (numbers not given).

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50194: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 10.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Not the full list for micromammals (9 species) or molluscs.
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus, Apodemus aff. maastrichtiensis
"Apodemus cf. sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Apodemus aff. maastrichtiensis Eurasian field mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840 dormouse
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Carychiidae
 Stylommatophora - Acanthinulidae
 Stylommatophora - Succineidae
Succinea oblonga amber snail
 Stylommatophora - Helicidae
Cepaea sp. Held 1838 slug
 Stylommatophora - Clausiliidae