Quaternary Palaeontology

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The Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar is a scientific location and collection site of the Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research and a department of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt. The scientific focus is on the evolutionary history of animal and plant communities and the reconstruction of palaeoecosystems and environmental conditions that existed during the global climatic variability of the Quaternary Ice Age (a period spanning the past 2.6 million years).

Our Research

Quaternary large mammals section

Quaternary small mammals section

Quaternary macrofloras section

Quaternary microfloras section

About the department:

Thuringia came to prominence in the scientific world because of a scientific dispute in 1696-1704 between W. E. Tentzel and the Collegium medicum in Gotha. Large bones from the Pleistocene travertines of Burgtonna were correctly identified by Tentzel as those of a fossil elephant. He defended vehemently his opinion against interpretations as “games of nature” common at this time. During the 19th century the first important fossil collections were assembled at Weimar, mainly comprising finds from the fossil sites in the immediate vicinity of the town, such as Süßenborn, Weimar (Belvederer Allee), Taubach and Ehringsdorf. The description of these finds was undertaken by such well known palaeontologists, as von Fritsch, Pohlig, Weiss, Wiegers, Wüst, and Soergel.

In the 1950s the Quaternary palaeontology research team in the Archaeological Museum in Weimar led by H.-D. Kahlke (1924-2017), investigated and enlarged the collections from Thuringian Quaternary sites. A milestone was the foundation of the Institute of Quaternary Palaeontology in 1962. The primary aim of this institute was to analyse fossil material in cooperation with international teams, and to undertake systematic excavations.

Since 1963 six international Quaternary palaeontological conferences have been held at Weimar. The results of these conferences have been published as monographs and in special issues of the series Quartärpaläontologie (see below “Collection-related monographic publicatoions” and “Series Quartärpaläontologie“), founded by the Institute of Quaternary Palaeontology in 1975. As a result “classic” Weimar gained additional international repute in the field of natural sciences.

In 1992 the institute (then called Quaternary Palaeontology Section) was temporally incorporated into the Institute of Geosciences of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (until 1999). During this time the first volume of the monograph on the Lower Pleistocene fossil site of Untermassfeld was published in the monograph series of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (since 2023 Leibniz Zentrum für Archäologie LEIZA), two further volumes followed in 2001, a fourth one in 2020, and the fifth and last one in 2022 (see below “Collection-related monographic publications”).

Since 2000 the Research Station is part of Senckenberg. In 2005 it was moved to refurbished buildings next to the historic St. Jacob’s Church in Weimar. The new buildings house modern offices and laboratories and allow optimal storage of the collections. The main building was named “Wolfgang Soergel House” in honour of the well-known Weimar palaeontologist Wolfgang Soergel (1887-1946). Since then the extent of the meanwhile 20 collections has nearly quadrupled (updated: March 2022, see below “Collection overview”).

Name of collection	Age	Number of series or taxa	Number of palaeozoological specimens	Number of palaeobotanical specimens	Other
South Thuringia collection	Late Pliocene		128
Untermaßfeld collection	Early Pleistocene		14,597		except microvertebrates
Voigtstedt collection	Early Middle Pleistocene		1,033		except microvertebrates
Süßenborn collection	Early Middle Pleistocene		3,444
Ehringsdorf collection	Late Middle/Late Pleistocene		3,969	2,692
Taubach collection	Eemian Interglacial		3,093
Burgtonna collection I	Eemian Interglacial to early Weichselian Glacial		689	3,346
Burgtonna collection II	Eemian Interglacial to early Weichselian Glacial		2,369	2,793	collection Lindner
Weimar collection	Eemian Interglacial		350	40
Microvertebrate collection	Pleistocene		17,000
Thuringian Basin collection	Pleistocene		69		specimens from 208 sites, in parts published separately
Foreign collection	Pleistocene		712	187
Pugmark collection	Pleistocene to Middle Ages		69	2	9 specimens with other marks
Type specimen collection	Pleistocene		79 (301 single preparations)	8	120 digital copies
Mollusk collection	Pleistocene, Holocene	13,876 (Series)
Pollen collection	Pleistocene, Holocene	4,984 (Series)
Laacher See collection	Allerød			2,032
Pollen comparative collection	recent	1,951 (Taxa)
Herbarium Senckenbergianum Weimar	recent	5,167 (Series)
Vertebrate comparative collection	recent		711

Publications, 2025

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2025): Early Paleogene plant biomes of the Pacific side of Eurasia. – Palaeoworld 34 (1): 100865 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2024.06.007.

BRUCH, A. A., KERN, A. K., STEBICH, M., WEITZEL, N. & BOLUS, M. (2025): Large-scale vegetation shifts during substantial warming – Proxy-based biome reconstructions of MIS 6 and MIS 5e in Europe. – Quaternary Science Reviews 356: 109308 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109308.

JIN, C., FORSYTHE, A., BÁLINT, M., KIENAST, F., NIKOLSKIY, P. A., KOWALCZYK, R., GUSCHANSKI, K. & VAN DER VALK, T. (2025): Metagenomic insights into the diet and past Kolyma Lowland habitat from the intestinal content of a Late Pleistocene steppe bison. – Quaternary Science Reviews 369: 109604.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109604.

KIENAST, F. (2025): Implications of the Early-Middle-Pleistocene transition in Central Europe: the Arternian interglacial macroflora near Voigtstedt, Thuringia, Central Germany. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 346: 105484.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2025.105484.

SCHIRRMEISTER, L., FUCHS, M., OPEL, T., ANDREEV, A. A., KIENAST, F., SCHNEIDER, A., NAZAROVA, L. B., FROLOVA, L., KUZMINA, S., KUZNETSOVA, T., TUMSKOY, V., MATTHES, H., LOHMANN, G., GROSSE, G., KUNITSKY, V. MEYER, H., ZIMMERMANN, H., HERZSCHUH, U., BÖHMER, T., UMBO, S., MODESTOU, S., BREITENBACH, S. F. M., PISMENIUK, A., SCHWAMBORN, G., KUSCH, S. & WETTERICH, S. (2025): Newly dated permafrost deposits and their paleo-ecological inventory reveal a much warmer-than-today Eemian in Arctic Siberia. – Climate of the Past 21 (7): pp. 1143-1184.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1143-2025.

STEBICH, M. & HÖFER, D. (2025): Sächsische Tieflandsbucht. – In: FEESER,I, DÖRFLER, W., RÖSCH, M., JAHNS, S., WOLTERS, S., BITTMANN, F. (Eds., 2024): Vegetationsgeschichte der Landschaften in Deutschland. – 567-576; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68936-3_64.

THOMPSON, N., SALZMANN, U., HUTCHINSON, D. K., STROTHER, S. L., POUND, M. J., UTESCHER, T., BRUGGER, J., HICKLER, T., HOCKING, E. P. & LUNT, D. J. (2025): Global vegetation zonation and terrestrial climate of the warm Early Eocene. – Earth-Science Reviews 261: 105036.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.105036.

WANKE, S., OTTE, V., APPELHANS, M. S., BUCHER, S. F., DAMM, U., GEBAUER, S., GREGOR, T., HELLWIG, F., HENTSCHEL, J., HOPPENRATH, M., KIENAST, F., MÜLLER, J., PRINTZEN, C., RITZ, C. M., RÖMERMANN, C., STEBICH, M., VICTOR, K., WESCHE, K., WESENBERG, J., WINTER, G. & ZIZKA, G. (2025): Forming a large, multicentre herbarium: Herbarium Haussknecht (JE) joins Herbarium Senckenbergianum. – Taxon 74 (2): 486-489.
Free Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13345.

WU, J., YU, Y., STEBICH, M., PARK, J., & MARQUER, L. (2025): Climate and vegetation evolution in Northeast Asia and its impact on hunter-gatherer populations during the last deglaciation. – Journal of Geographical Sciences 35 (11). pp. 2363-2377 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11442-025-2416-2.

Publications, 2013

HORÁČEK, I., MAUL, L. C., SMITH, K. T., BARKAI, R. & GOPHER, A. (2013): Bat remains (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel, with the first Pleistocene record of fruit bats in the Mediterranean region. – Palaeontologia Electronica 16 (3): 1-19 .
Open access: http://www.palaeo-electronica.org/content/2013/513-qesem-bats.

KAHLKE, R.-D. & FISHER, D. (2013): Mammutfriedhof (Karte). – National Geographic Deutschland 2013 (4): 121.

KAHLKE, R.-D. & FISHER, D. (2013): Siberian Trove (Map). – National Geographic Magazine 223 (4): 55.

KIENAST, F. (2013): Plant macrofossil records – Arctic Eurasia. – In: Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science Vol. 3. – 733-745; Elsevier, 2nd edition.

Publications, 2004

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D. & VEKUA, A. (2004): The Old World puma – Puma pardoides (Owen, 1846) (Carnivora: Felidae) – in the Lower Villafranchian (Upper Pliocene) of Kvabebi (East Georgia, Transcaucasia) and its evolutionary and biogeographical significance. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 233 (2): 197-231 | https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/233/2004/197.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Bibliography 1951-2004 of Hans-Dietrich Kahlke. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 31-54.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Eiszeitbisons aus dem Nuggetland. – Natur und Museum 134 (12): 423-424.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Die Fossilgeschichte von Gigantopithecus und Pongo. Forschungsreisen und Expeditionen nach China, Vietnam und Indien [Wiedergabe und Reflexion der zweiten G. H. R. v. Koenigswald Lecture]. – Natur und Museum 134 (4): 123-127.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Late Early Pleistocene European large mammals. A mixture of Villafranchian and Galerian (Cromerian) elements? – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 125-127.

KAHLKE, R.-D. & MAUL, L. C. (2004): Preface. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 7-8.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Vorwort [zur Wiedergabe und Reflexion der zweiten G. H. R. v. Koenigswald Lecture]. – Natur und Museum 134 (4): 123.

KAHLKE, R.-D. & MAUL, L. C. (2004): Zum Geleit. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 9-10.

KAHLKE, R.-D. & Ostritz, S. (2004): Vorwort der Herausgeber. – In: OSTRITZ, S. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (eds.): Kahlke, H.-D.: Sonderhausen und Bruchstedt. Zwei Gräberfelder mit älterer Linienbandkeramik in Thüringen. – Weimarer Monographien zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte 39: [8].

Kierdorf, U. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Pathological findings on remains of Hippopotamus amphibius antiquus Desmarest, 1822 (Hippopotamidae, Mammalia) from the late Lower Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 137-138.

MASINI, F., GIANNINI, T., ABBAZZI, L., FANFANI, F., DELFINO, M., MAUL, L. C. & TORRE, D. (2004 online, 2005 print): A latest Biharian small Vertebrate fauna from the lacustrine succession of San Lorenzo (Santarcangelo basin, Basilicata, Italy) – Quaternary International 131 (1): 79-93 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2004.07.008.

MAUL, L. C. (2004): The arvicolids of the old collection of Senèze reconsidered. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 168-169.

MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.) (2004): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2).

MAUL, L. C. & MARKOVA, A. K. (2004): Similarity and regional differences in the Quaternary arvicolid evolution in Central and Eastern Europe. – In: 32^th International Geological Congress. Florence, Italy, August 20-28, 2004. Abstract volume. – 1135; Florence.

MOL, D. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): The Fishhook Mammoth – A Late Pleistocene (Early Sartanian) individual of Mammuthus primigenius with preserved gut contents from the Upper Taimyra River (Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Siberia). – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 179-180.

MOL, D. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): In search for Ice Age Mammals using heavy equipment. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 261-263.

OSTRITZ, S. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (eds.) (2004): Kahlke, H.-D.: Sonderhausen und Bruchstedt. Zwei Gräberfelder mit älterer Linienbandkeramik in Thüringen. – Weimarer Monographien zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte 39.

OSTRITZ, S. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2004): Zum Geleit. – In: OSTRITZ, S. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (eds.): Kahlke, H.-D.: Sonderhausen und Bruchstedt. Zwei Gräberfelder mit älterer Linienbandkeramik in Thüringen. – Weimarer Monographien zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte 39: [7].

PAUNESCU, A.-C., MAUL, L. C. & MASINI, F. (2004): Comparison of evolutionary patterns of Arvicola in Germany, France and Italy. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 203-204.

REKOVETS, L. I. & MAUL, L. (2004): Nastoyashchie lemmingi roda Lemmus Link, 1795 (Rodentia) iz mestonakhozhdeniya Thiede v Germanii. – In: Prirodnichi nauki na mezhi stolit’ (do70-rishchya prirodnogo fakulteta NDPU). – 74-77, Nizhin. (in Ukrainian)

STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C. & MINGRAM, J. (2004): Late Quaternary vegetation history of north-eastern China. Preliminary results of palaeobotanical studies from annually laminated maar lake sediments. – In: MAUL, L. C., KAHLKE, R.-D. & MEYRICK, R. A. (eds.): 18^th International Senckenberg Conference / VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar: Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations. Weimar, Germany, April 25-30, 2004. Conference Volume. – Terra Nostra 2004 (2): 239-241.

STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C., KULBE, T. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2004 online, 2005 print): Vegetation history, human impact and climate change during the last 700 years recorded in annually laminated sediments of Lac Pavin, France. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 133 (1/2): 115-133 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2004.09.004.

Publications, 2003

HEMMER, H., KAHLKE, R.-D. & KELLER, T. (2003): Panthera onca gombaszoegensis (Kretzoi, 1938) aus den frühmittelpleistozänen Mosbach-Sanden (Wiesbaden, Hessen, Deutschland). Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Variabilität und Verbreitungsgeschichte des Jaguars. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 229 (1): 31-60 | https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/229/2003/31.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Book Review „Helmut Nestler. Die Fossilien der Rügener Schreibkreide. 4., überarb. u. verbesserte Aufl. (Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Band 486), 129 S., 158 s/w Abb., Westarp Wissenschaften-Verlagsges, Hohenwarsleben, 2002“. – Natur und Museum 133 (5): 156.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Book Review „Per Smed. Steine aus dem Norden. Geschiebe als Zeugen der Eiszeit in Norddeutschland (Deutsche Übersetzung und Bearbeitung durch Jürgen Ehlers), 2. verbess. Aufl., 194 S., 157 Abb. auf 34 Farbtaf., 83 z. T. farbige Abb. im Text.; Borntraeger, Berlin, Stuttgart, 2002“. – Natur und Museum 133 (2): 59-60.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Contemporary mammals of Mammuthus meridionalis during the late Lower Pleistocene in Europe. The diverse Epivillafranchian Untermassfeld fauna. – In: 3^rd International Mammoth Conference: Dawson City and Whitehorse, Canada, May 24-29, 2003. Program and Abstracts. – Occasional Papers in Earth Science 5: 51-54.; 1 fig.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. – In: Wissenschaftsland Thüringen. – 66-67; 2 figs.; Erfurt.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Fossile Feuerspuren. – Natur und Museum 133 (11): 345-346.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Moschusochsen bei Senckenberg. – Fossilien – Zeitschrift für Hobbypaläonthologen 2003 (1): 5-6.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Reiche Neufunde in Untermaßfeld. Die Grabungskampagne 2002. – Natur und Museum 133 (2): 54-57.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Die Travertine von Weimar-Ehringsdorf. Flora, Fauna und stratigraphische Stellung. – In: Geologische Exkursionen in Thüringen. Zur Geologie von Weimar und Umgebung (Ilmtal zwischen Weimar und Ehringsdorf). Exkursionsführer. – 41-47; 3 pls.; Weimar.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2003): Untermaßfeld. Ungewöhnlich reiche Neufunde in den Jahren 2001 und 2002. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 17 (Nr. 1/2003): 25-26.

KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C. & KEILER, J.-A. (2003): Die Forschungsgrabungen im Unterpleistozän von Untermaßfeld/Südthüringen. – In: 73. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft: Biodiversität – exogene und endogene Hintergründe. Mainz, 29. September bis 3. Oktober, 2003. Sonderschau zur Jahrestagung. Tagungsmappe. – add. 1-4; Mainz.

KEILER, J.-A., STACHE, M. & RÖSSLER, D. (2003): Methoden der Grabung, Präparation und Konservierung unterpleistozäner Wirbeltierreste von Untermaßfeld/Südthüringen. – In: 73. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft: Biodiversität – exogene und endogene Hintergründe. Mainz, 29. September bis 3. Oktober 2003. – Terra Nostra 2003 (5): 81-82.

MASINI, F., MAUL, L. C., ABBAZZI, L. & PETRUSO, D. (2003): Independent arvicola lineages in Italy and Central Europe. – In: 4^th European Congress of Mammalogy: European Mammalogy. Brno, Czech Republic, July 21 – August 1, 2003. Programm & Abstracts & Lists of participants. – 164; Brno.

MAUL, L. C. (2003): Das Benagen von Knochen. – Natur und Museum 133 (6): 157-165.

MAUL, L. C. & MASINI, F. (2003): Common ancestry of selected small mammal taxa. The palaeontological evidence. – In: 4^th European Congress of Mammalogy 2003: European Mammalogy. Brno, Czech Republic, July 21 – August 1, 2003. Programm & Abstracts & Lists of participants. – 166; Brno.

MEYRICK, R. A. (2003): Holocene molluscan faunal history and environmental change at Kloster Mühle, Rheinland‐Pfalz, western Germany. – Journal of Quaternary Science 18 (2): 121-132 | https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.728.

MEYRICK, R. A. & MAUL, L. C. (2003): Ausgrabungen in Burgtonna seit 300 Jahren. – Natur und Museum 133 (9): 253-261.

MOL, D., TIKHONOV, A., VAN DER PLICHT, J. , KAHLKE, R.-D., DEBRUYNE, R., VAN GEEL, B., PALS, J. P., MARLIAVE, C. de & REUMER, J. W. F. (2003): Results of the Cerpolex/Mammuthus Expeditions on the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Siberia, Russian Federation. – In: 3^rd International Mammoth Conference. Dawson City, Whitehorse, Canada, May 24-29, 2003. Program and Abstracts. – Occasional Papers in Earth Science 5: 97-112.

NIELSEN-MARSH, C., OSTROM, P. H., GANDHI, H., SHAPIRO, B., COOPER, A., HAUSCHKA, P. V., KAHLKE, R.-D. & COLLINS, M. J. (2003): Ancient protein sequences: a new direction for molecular palaeontology. – In: American Chemical Society Meeting. New Orleans, U.S.A., March 23-27, 2003. – unpaginated [1 p]; New Orleans.

SCHWAB, M. J., ACKSEL, D., BRÜCHMANN, C., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2003): The Lac Pavin high resoluted sediment cores (Massif Central, France). Chronological and paleoenvironmental informations from a varved sediment. – In: International Union of Quaternary Research (INQUA) Symposium: High resolution late Holocene climate records for Europe and Africa (PEP III transect). Reno, U.S.A., July 23-30, 2003. – 151; Reno.

Publications, 2002

ACKSEL, D., SCHWAB, M. J., STEBICH, M., BRÜCHMANN, C. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2002): Erstes vollständiges See-Sedimentprofil aus dem Lac Pavin. Chronologische und paläoklimatische Informationen. – In: NIEBUHR, B. (ed.): Planet Erde. Vergangenheit, Entwicklung, Zukunft. Gemeinschaftstagung von 13 geowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften in der Bundesrepublik an der Bayerischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Würzburg, 1.-5. Oktober, 2002. Exkursionsführer. – Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 21: 59.

BRÜCHMANN, C., KULBE, T., STEBICH, M. & NEGENDANK, J. F. W. (2002): Sedimentologische und mikrostratigraphische Untersuchungen der Laminae des Maarsees Lac Pavin, Auvergne/Frankreich. – In: NIEBUHR, B. (ed.): Planet Erde. Vergangenheit, Entwicklung, Zukunft. Gemeinschaftstagung von 13 geowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften in der Bundesrepublik an der Bayerischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Würzburg, 1.-5. Oktober, 2002. Exkursionsführer. – Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 21: 87.

KAHLKE, H.-D. (2002): A history of the Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie Weimar and Quaternary palaeontological research in Thuringia. – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 187-230; fig. 14.1-14.2; London.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 5: Großsäugetiere. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (eds.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N. F. 9: 207-232.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Britische Quartärforscher auf Exkursion in Thüringen. – Natur und Museum 132 (11): 426-427.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Eurasiens Moschusochsen – einst und jetzt. – Natur und Museum 132 (10): 388-390.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Fossilien des Eiszeitalters. Einblicke in die Naturgeschichte Europas. – Senckenberg-Kalender 2003. – 28 figs.; Frankfurt/M.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Fossilien des Eiszeitalters. Einblicke in die Naturgeschichte Europas. Senckenberg-Kalender 2003. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 15 (Nr. 1/2002): 51-52.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): The late Lower Pleistocene (Epivillafranchian) faunal site of Untermassfeld. – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 97-113; fig. 7.1-7.9; London.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): The Quaternary large mammal faunas of Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 59-78; fig. 5.1-5.19; London.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Short Field Meeting der Quaternary Research Association (QRA) in Thüringen. – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 9: 52-53.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Short Field Meeting der Quaternary Research Association (QRA) in Thüringen. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 16 (Nr. 2/2002): 27-29.

KAHLKE, R.-D. & MAUL, L. C. (2002): Pleistozäne Fossillagerstätten in Thüringen (Exkursion H am 5. April 2002). – Jahresberichte und Mitteilungen des Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereins N. F. 84: 225-239.

KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (2002): Einführung in die Entwicklungsgeschichte Thüringens während des Känozoikums. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (eds.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N. F. 9: 4-8.

KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (eds.) (2002): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N. F. 9: 1-364; 11 add.

KAHLKE, R.-D., MAUL, L. C., MEYRICK, R. A., STEBICH, M. & GRASSELT, T. (2002): The Quaternary sequence from the late Middle to Upper Pleistocene site of Weimar-Ehringsdorf. – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 163-177; fig. 12.1-12.11; London.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 3: Insekten. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (eds.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N. F. 9: 173-186.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Ehrung für Thüringer Quartärpaläontologen in den USA. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 15 (Nr. 1/2002): 24.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Quaternary insect evidence in Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 51-58; fig. 4.1-4.5; London.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Senckenberg-Ehrung für Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Kahlke. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 14 (Nr. 1/2001): 50.

KEILER, J.-A. (2002): Senckenbergische Grabungen im Dinotheriensand von Eppelsheim. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 14 (Nr. 1/2001): 32-33.

KNÖTSCHKE, N. & RÖSSLER, D. (2002): Neue Ergebnisse des „Vereins zur Förderung der niedersächsischen Paläontologie e. V.“. Präparation eines knochenführenden Gesteinsblocks mit den Schwerpunkten wissenschaftlicher Bearbeitung der Knochen und Präsentation in einer Ausstellung. – Der Präparator 48 (1): 21-30.

MAUL, L. C. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 4: Kleinsäugetiere. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (eds.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N. F. 9: 187-205.

MAUL, L. C. (2002): Book Review „Das Pleistozän von Untermaßfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen). Teil 2 und 3“. – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 7: 92.

MAUL, L. C. (2002): The Quaternary small mammal faunas of Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 79-95; fig. 6.1-6.6; London.

MEISSNER, M., ARENHÖVEL, C., BRANIEK, G., KAHLKE, R.-D., KATZSCHMANN, L., PUSTAL, I., SCHÄFER, D., STEINER, W. & STROBEL, M. (2002): Route 1. Der „grüne Kulturwanderweg“ von Süßenborn bis Belvedere und Taubach. – In: Geologie und Geotope in Weimar und Umgebung. Mit Ausflugs- und Wandervorschlägen. Geologische Umgebungskarte von Weimar im Maßstab 1 : 35 000. – 138-179; 32 figs.; Weimar. (2. Auflage)

MEYRICK, R. A. (2002): Dolmar celtic fortification. – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 114-115; fig. 8.1; London.

MEYRICK, R. A. (2002): The Quaternary molluscan faunas of Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 31-49; fig. 3.1-3.6; London.

MEYRICK, R. A. & MAUL, L. C. (2002): Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eemian deposits of Burgtonna. – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – 145-161; fig. 11.1-11.14; London.

MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia & Surroundings). Field Guide. – VI, 1-230; figs. 1.1-14.2; London.

STEBICH, M. (2002): Armleuchteralgen. Filigrane Gesteinsbildner in Karstgewässern. – Natur und Museum 132 (6): 220-221.

STEBICH, M. & SCHNEIDER, H. (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs in Thüringen. Teil 1: Mikro- und Makrofloren. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (eds.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N. F. 9: 119-144.

STEBICH, M. & SCHNEIDER, H. (2002): The Quaternary micro- and macro floras of Thuringia (Central Germany). – In: MEYRICK, R. A. & SCHREVE, D. C. (eds.): The Quaternary of Central Germany (Thuringia and Surroundings). Field Guide. – 9-29; fig. 2.1-2.14; London.

WIEFEL, J. & KAHLKE, R.-D. (2002): Dedication / Widmung. – In: KAHLKE, R.-D. & WUNDERLICH, J. (eds.): Tertiär und Quartär in Thüringen. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen N. F. 9: 3.

Publications, 2000

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2000): Bericht über die 2^nd International Mammoth Conference vom 16.-20. Mai 1999 in Rotterdam. – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen / Sonderheft 2 / Nachrichten Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft 75: 76-77.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2000): Book Review „Eltringham, S. K. The Hippos. Natural History and Conservation. 184 pp. T & AD Poyser Natural History, University Press, Cambridge 1999. ISBN: 0-85661-131-X. 27.95“. – Zoologische Abhandlungen des Museums für Tierkunde Dresden 51: 7, 72.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2000): The Early Pleistocene (Epivillafranchian) faunal site of Untermassfeld (Thuringia, Central Germany). Synthesis of new results. – In: LORDKIPANIDZE, D., BAR-YOSEF, O. & OTTE, M. (eds.): Early humans at the gates of Europe. Proceedings of the first international symposium. Dmanisi, Tbilisi, Georgia, September 1998. – Etudes et Recherches Archéologiques de l’Université de Liège 92: 123-138.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2000): Beuterest. Vorderbein-Skelett eines „Etruskischen Nashorns“ aus Südthüringen. – Natur und Museum 130 (6): 197-199.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2000): Neue Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. – Mitteilungsblatt des Thüringischen Geologischen Vereins 12 (Nr. 1/2000): 37.

KAHLKE, R.-D. (2000): Untermassfeld. A reference fauna of the Eurasian Post-Villafranchian Lower Pleistocene. – In: Les premiers habitants de l’Europe. Resumes des Communications. – 52; Tautavel.

MAUL, L. C. (2000): Die Fundstelle Weimar-Ehringsdorf. Eine Übersicht. – Geowissenschaftlche Mitteilungen von Thüringen / Beiheft 10: 167-174.

MAUL, L. C., REKOVETS, L., HEINRICH, W.-D., KELLER, T. & STORCH, G. (2000): Arvicola mosbachensis (Schmidtgen 1911) of Mosbach 2. A basic sample for the early evolution of the genus and a reference for further biostratigraphical studies. – Senckenbergiana lethaea 80 (1): 129-147.

MEYRICK, R. A. (2000): Holocene molluscan faunal history and environmental change from a tufa at Direndall, Luxembourg. – Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Luxembourgeoise 22: 55-75.

MOULLÉ, P.-E., ECHASSOUX, A., MOIGNE, A.-M., PALOMBO, M.-R., CALOI, L., KAHLKE, R.-D., VEKUA, A. & LORDKIPANIDZE, D. (2000): Les faunes de la fin du Pléistocène inférieur de la grotte du Vallonnet (Alpes-Maritimes, France), de Redicicoli (Latium, Italie), de Untermassfeld (Allemagne) et de Akhalkalaki (Géorgie). L’horizon biostratigraphique du Vallonnet. – In: Les premiers habitants de l’Europe. Resumes des Communications. – 50-51; Tautavel.

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Dr Martina Stebich

Acting head of Quaternary palaeontology department and head of Quaternary microfloras section

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