Sudmer Berg 2, bei Goslar (Pleistocene of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (51.9° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Middle Pleistocene, earliest Arvicola cantianus fauna.

Environment/lithology: fissure fill

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 50249: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 11.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Barbastella barbastella Schreber 1775 vesper bat
Plecotus auritus Linnaeus 1758 common long-eared bat
Myotis cf. nattereri Kuhl 1818 vesper bat
Myotis exilis Heller 1936 vesper bat
Myotis bechsteini Leisler 1818 vesper bat
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf
Canis lupus mosbachensis
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera leo Linnaeus 1758 lion
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Capreolus sp. Gray 1821 roe
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Sorex sp. araneus Gruppe
Sorex minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
Sorex (Drepanosorex) savini Hinton 1911 long-tailed shrew
Sorex praealpinus Heller 1930 long-tailed shrew
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Sicista sp. Gray 1827 birch mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse
Lemmus vel Myopus
"Prometheomyinae indet." = Prometheomyini Kretzoi 1955 vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus arvalis-agrestis group
 Rodentia - Muridae
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Apodemus coronensis Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Muscardinus avellanarius Linnaeus 1758 hazel dormouse
Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus 1766 garden doormouse