Hullern Cave: Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas primigenius Blumenbach 1799
recombined as Mammuthus primigenius
not described but reported present
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison priscus (Bojanus 1827)
1 specimen
skull
Mammalia - Cervidae
Rangifer sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
not described but reported present
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
not described but reported present
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:North Rhine
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 7.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.0° North, 7.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34536
Authorizer:J. Hunter Enterer:M. Hall
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-07 14:53:06 Last modified:2006-08-14 01:24:30
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-07 14:53:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9116.5% 33680W. Lang. 1979. Ein pleistozaner Bisonschadel aus der Niederterasse der Stever bei Haltern/Westfalen. Aufschluss Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie und Geologie 30:266-268 [J. Hunter/M. Hall/J. Alroy]