Weimar, Oberer Travertin (Upper Travertine): Early/Lower Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Asinus hydruntinus
synonym of Equus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammonteus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)
recombined as Mammuthus primigenius
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758)
Holman 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Thüringen
Coordinates: 51.0° North, 11.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° North, 11.1° 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
Formation:Oberer Travertin
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Pleistocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: travertine
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: travertine
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: travertine
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45086
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:S. Kuemmell, E. Vlachos
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-04 04:32:37 Last modified:2008-12-16 20:25:35
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-04 04:32:37
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:

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]