Sackdillinger Cave: Pleistocene, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus sackdillingensis n. sp.
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| upper M2 found | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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| Holman 1998 | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Holman 1998 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Heidelberg |
| Coordinates: | 49.4° North, 8.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.2° North, 8.9° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Neckars |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: Fossils found in reinforced red quarz sand | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 34411 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Hunter, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | M. Hall, E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-08-30 13:39:14 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-08-30 13:39:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9059. | 5% 44660 | F. Heller. 1955. Ein kleiner Bar (Ursus sackdillingensis n. sp.) in der cromerischen Fauna der Sackdillinger-Hohle (Oberpfalz). Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palantologie 12:520-530 [J. Hunter/M. Hall/J. Alroy] |
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] |