Distinction of Arvernoceros ardei and Cervus perrieri (Cervidae, Mammalia) from the late Pliocene site of Perrier (France) based on the postcranial skeleton: taxonomic and phylogenetic conclusions

A partial skeleton of “Mammut” borsoni (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Kaltensundheim (Germany)

“…In 1958, the former Museum in Meiningen (Thuringia) excavated the mammutid skeleton (studied here) under the supervision of Friedemann Schaarschmidt (later Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt a. M.) (Figure 2). A second campaign took part in 1962-1966 lead by Gottfried Böhme (later Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) and produced the skeleton of a small deer Avernoceros ardei (Böhme, 1963;Pfeiffer-Deml, 2020). In 1976 to 1978, a third campaign in the same sinkhole was executed by the Institut für Quartärpaläontologie in Weimar under the direction of Hans-Dietrich Kahlke.…”

“…The Villafranchian age of the filling in the Kaltensundheim sinkhole is indicated by three mammalian species Hypolagus brachygnathus, Arveroceros ardei, and "Mammut" borsoni (Böhme, 2002;Pfeiffer-Deml, 2020) and by a Late Pliocene flora with 70 species. This flora was correlated to Ceyssac in the French Massif Central.…”