Maasvlakte, Fauna I: Middle Pleistocene, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758)
Holman 1998
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Archidiskodon meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
recombined as Mammuthus meridionalis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys savini
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium cuvieri Owen 1846
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmana thermalis Kormos 1930
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex (Drepanosorex) sp. Linnaeus 1758
Petenyia hungarica Kormos 1934
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus aff. denigeri
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Aonyx antiqua Blainville 1841
Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824
    = Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859
Scager et al. 2017
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx lynx (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Soergelia minor
van Kolfschoten and Vervoort-Kerkhoff 2010
Praeovibos cf. priscus Staudinger 1908
van Kolfschoten and Vervoort-Kerkhoff 2010
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Megaloceros sp. Brookes 1828
van Kolfschoten and Vervoort-Kerkhoff 2010
Dama dama (Linnaeus 1758)
van Kolfschoten and Vervoort-Kerkhoff 2010
Cervalces latifrons (Johnson 1874)
Alces latifrons (Johnson 1874)
van Kolfschoten and Vervoort-Kerkhoff 2010
recombined as Cervalces latifrons
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
van Kolfschoten and Vervoort-Kerkhoff 2010
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
recombined as Stephanorhinus etruscus
subspecies brachycephalus
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 4.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.0° North, 4.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: dredge spoils
Metadata
Also known as:Meuse Levels, Beer canal
Database number:109704
Authorizer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos Enterer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-05-23 03:39:27 Last modified:2011-05-22 13:43:43
Access level:the public Released:2011-05-23 03:39:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36257. Y. Vervoort-Kerkhoff and T. van Kolfschoten. 1988. Pleistocene and Holocene mammalian faunas from the Maasvlakete near Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Meded. Werkgr. Tert. Kwart. Geol 25(1):87-98 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

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]
63715 D. J. Scager, H.-J. Ahrens, F. E. Dieleman, L. W. Hoek Ostende, J. Vos and J. W. F. Reumer. 2017. The Kor & Bot collection revisited, with a biostratigraphic interpretation of the Early Pleistocene Oosterschelde Fauna (Oosterschelde Estuary, the Netherlands). Deinsea 17:16-31 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
39450 T. van Kolfschoten and Y. Vervoort-Kerkhoff. 2010. Maasvlakte I - Bronvan informatie voor paleontologen en archeologen. Cranium 27(2):58-62 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]