Where: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (48.5° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 9.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Middle Middle Pleistocene, similar age to Karlich H (= Holsteinian, 0.3Ma).
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Interglacial fauna.
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 50259: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 11.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant | |
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat | |
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Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse | |
Microtus (Terricola) arvaloides, Microtus arvalinus, Microtus ratticepoides, Microtus (Stenocranius) gregaloides, Arvicola cantianus, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes, Cricetus cricetus
Microtus arvalinus vole
Arvicola cantianus vole
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole
Cricetus cricetus Linnaeus 1758 European hamster | |
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver | |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole
? Talpa minor Freudenberg 1914 mole | |
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew
Sorex cf. aranoides long-tailed shrew | |
Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear
Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 cave bear | |
Martes sp. Frisch 1775 marten
Meles meles Linnaeus 1758 European badger | |
Felis silvestris Schreber 1777 wildcat
Panthera leo Linnaeus 1758 lion | |
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox | |
Bison cf. schoetensacki bison
Bison priscus Bojanus 1827 bison | |
Dama sp. Frisch 1775 fallow deer
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer | |
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar | |
Equus steinheimensis horse | |
Stephanorhinus hemitoechus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros |