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Wiesbaden (Dinotherium -blog) - About ten million years ago lived in Germany more than today along elephant species in Africa and Asia. At that time there were a total of five species of elephants, while at present only two species in Africa and Asia even exist for only one type. More on this in the paperback "The Ur-Rhine. Rheinhessen ten million years, "the Wiesbaden science writer Ernst Probst.
The largest and most famous elephant in the Ur-Rhine was in Rheinhessen Deinotherium giganteum (Giant Animal Horror ") with a shoulder height of up to about 3.60 meters. Unlike other animal with a trunk of this elephant had two downward curved tusks in the lower jaw. Deinotherium giganteum is also known as elephant tusks and the Rhine-elephant.
Because the deposits of the ancient Rhine often teeth and bones were found by Deinotherium giganteum, called this Dinotheriensande. From the Dinotheriensanden but were also the remains of other elephants and rhinos (partially without horn), krallenfüßigen "ungulates", tapirs, three-toed For horses, midgets deer, forest antelope, pigs, bears, dogs with characteristics of bears and dogs, cats, bears, insectivores, hyenas, saber-toothed cats, and even from great apes to Vorschein.Über this exotic wildlife informed the Dinotherium Museum in Eppelsheim (Kreis Alzey- Worms) in Rheinhessen.
The paperback, "The Ur-Rhine. Rheinhessen ten million years ago is "dedicated to three men who have in various ways rendered outstanding: the paleontologist Dr. Jens Lorenz Franzen from Titisee-Neustadt, the former mayor Heiner Roos from Eppelsheim and in the 19th Century late paleontologist and zoologist Johann Jakob Kaup from Darmstadt. Dr. Jens Lorenz Franzen
(born 1937) is a longtime employee of the Research Institute Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main, who rediscovered the Dinotheriensand locality and founder of the first scientific excavations of Eppelsheim. Heiner Roos (b. 1934), former mayor of Eppelsheim, is the "spiritual father" of Dinotherium Museum in Eppelsheim. With Johann Jakob Kaup (1803-1873) began the study of Säugtierfauna from Eppelsheim Dinotheriensanden at once.
The Ur-Rhine had about ten million years ago a very different course than it is today and was much shorter than the present Rhine. He did not flow through the area of Oppenheim, kidney stones, Nackenheim, Mainz, Wiesbaden, and Ingelheim, but about 20 kilometers west of the area of Alzey to Binger gate. The most popular sites with deposits of the ancient Rhine are Eppelsheim, Gau-Weinheim and Wissberg in Gau-Weinheim.
particular findings from Eppelsheim excited again and again stir in the art. In the history of paleontology in 1835 discovered at Eppelsheim upper skull of the "Giant terror beast" was (Deinotherium giganteum) that has been misunderstood by many scholars at that time. It was considered, for example, a pangolin, a Riesentapir and Riesenseekuh before its true nature was recognized as a pachyderm.
The original discovery of the upper skull discovery of Deinotherium giganteum is located in the Natural History Museum in London. Casts of them are to be admired by others in Basel, Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, Mainz and Eppelsheim.
The paperback, "The Ur-Rhine" is richly illustrated with photographs and drawings. A special feast for the eyes are paintings and 21 drawings of animals from the time of some ten million years ago. These pictures were made by the academic painter Pavel major from Prague on behalf of the association and the community Eppelsheim Dinotherium Museum eV Eppelsheim and are among the attractions worth seeing Dinotherium Museum in Eppelsheim.
orders of the pocket book "The Ur-Rhine" at:
http://www.grin.com/e-book/120422/der-ur-rhein
