Ehringsdorf, basis of Unteren Travertin (Lower Travertine): Early/Lower Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758)
Holman 1998
Reptilia - Colubridae
Natrix natrix Linnaeus 1758
Holman 1998
Elaphe longissima Laurenti 1768
Holman 1998
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammonteus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)
    = Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799
Guenther 1975
some of them are ssp: trogontherii
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach 1799)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana arvalis
Holman 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Thüringen
Coordinates: 51.0° North, 11.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° North, 11.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Basis des Unteren Travertin
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Pleistocene
Deposition of the sediments during glacial (pebbles of the Ilm), most probably Riß-glacial and the beginning of the following Interglacial (marl)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified conglomerate
Secondary lithology: marl
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45063
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:S. Kuemmell, E. Vlachos
Modifier:S. Kuemmell Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-01 03:45:55 Last modified:2004-10-04 08:23:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-01 03:45:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11725. H.-D. Kahlke. 1958. Die jungpleistozänen Säugetierfaunen aus dem Travertingebiet von Taubach-Weimar-Ehringsdorf (The Early Plestocene mammalian fauna from the travetin-area of Taubach-Weimar-Ehringsdorf). Alt-Thüringen 3:97-130 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]

Secondary references:

11726 E. W. Guenther. 1975. Die Backenzähne der Elefanten von Ehringsdorf bei Weimar (The chewing teeth of elefants from Ehringsdorf, Weimar). Abhandlungen des zentralen geologischen Instituts, Paläonologische Ahandlungen 23(2):399-441 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
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]