Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.5° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 7.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Channal fill may belong to Riss-glaciation.
•The channal fill is just above the Leubsdorfer terrace, which belong to the fourth last glaciation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; unlithified, brown, argillaceous, sandy, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Fossil(s) in one of these museums: 1. Staatliches Amt für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Koblenz.
•2. Naturhistorisches Museum, Mainz. 3. Private collections
Primary reference: K. Brunnacker, H. Löhr, W. Boenigk, J. Puissegur, and F. Poplin. 1975. Quartär-Aufschlüsse bei Ariendorf am unteren Mittelrhein (Quaternary exposures at Ariendorf on the lower Middle Rhine). Mainzer naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 14:93-141 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43017: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 09.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach 1799 wooly rhino | |
"Megaceros cf. giganteus" = Megaloceros, Rangifer tarandus
"Megaceros cf. giganteus" = Megaloceros Irish elk
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer |