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

• coordinate stated in text

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Oldest Arvicola cantianus fauna, Middle Middle Pleistocene, Latest Cromerian - correlated with interglacial IV, roughly 0.4Ma. Material has been collected from a variety of units, but for the mammals they are all regarded as the same faunal unit. Several specimens in units G and F refit together. Mollusca have been subdivided but are not given here.

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collection methods: Mollusca collected but not listed here. Site discovered after pumice extraction in 1982 and excavated between 1982 and 1990.

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 49999: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 04.05.2005, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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