Karlich level H, im Neuwieder Becken: Middle Pleistocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Arianta arbustorum
Gastropoda - Discidae
Discus rotundatus
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Clausiliidae
Cochlodina laminata
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Helicidae
Cepaea nemoralis
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Carychiidae
Carychium tridentatum
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguis fragilis Linneaus 1758
Holman 1998
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Lacerta cf. vivipara
Holman 1998
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig 1885)
2 specimens
2 complete but poorly preserved upper molars.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
caballine. 1 upper molar.
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
Bos or Bison sp.
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798
1 specimen
Microtus arvalis (Pallas 1779)
1 specimen
Microtus arvalis/agrestis
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Triturus helveticus
Holman 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Rheinland-Pfalz
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 7.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.5° North, 7.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local bed:H
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Neuwied Basin
Stratigraphy comments: Level H is towards the top of the sequence (site goes level Jb). Middle-Late Middle Pleistocene, Arvicola cantianus, Holsteinian, roughly 300,000BP.
Lithology and environment
Environment:loess
Geology comments: Loess containing several other horizons including a pumice layer with icewedges and a basalt tuff.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: all fauna from below the 'Kaerlicher Brockentuff'. Sparse mollusc fauna, indicative full interglacial, rather humid conditions with oak forest.
Metadata
Also known as:Kärlich Schicht H, im Neuwieder Becken Kaerlich
Database number:50056
Authorizer:A. Turner, E. Vlachos Enterer:H. O'Regan, E. Vlachos
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2005-05-05 06:07:38 Last modified:2005-05-10 08:30:38
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-05 06:07:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13430.PACED T. van Kolfschoten and E. Turner. 1996. Early Middle Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Karlich (Kaerlich) and Miesenheim I and their biostratigraphical implications. In C. Turner , ed., The early Middle Pleistocene in Europe, Balkema, Rotterdam 227-253 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

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]