Also known as Kärlich Schicht H, im Neuwieder Becken Kaerlich

Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.5° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Level H is towards the top of the sequence (site goes level Jb). Middle-Late Middle Pleistocene, Arvicola cantianus, Holsteinian, roughly 300,000BP.

Environment/lithology: loess

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: all fauna from below the 'Kaerlicher Brockentuff'. Sparse mollusc fauna, indicative full interglacial, rather humid conditions with oak forest.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50056: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 05.05.2005, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)