Mosbach 1, bei Wiesbaden: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium cuvieri Owen 1846
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmana moschata (Linnaeus 1758)
Desmana moschata mosbachensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
Hippopotamus amphibius antiquus
Mammalia - Cervidae
Megaloceros (Praemegaceros) verticornis
Alces latifrons (Johnson 1874)
recombined as Cervalces latifrons
Capreolus suessenbornensis
"Cervus" reichenaui
    = aff. Cervus elaphoides
von Koenigswald and Heinrich 1999
"Cervus" elaphoides
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Cervus elephas acoronatus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig 1885)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Rheinland-Pfalz
Coordinates: 50.1° North, 8.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.1° North, 8.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Stratigraphy comments: Late Early Pleistocene, post Jaramillo Event, pre Brunhes/Matuyama boundary.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Contains warm phase taxa.
Metadata
Database number:50000
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-05-04 08:48:28 Last modified:2005-05-11 04:29:26
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-04 08:48:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9643.PACED W. von Koenigswald and W.-D. Heinrich. 1999. Mittelpleistozane Saugetierfaunen aus Mitteleuropa - der Versuch einer biostratigraphischen Zuordnung. Kaupia 9:53-112 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]