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Schmidt. We owe our knowledge of the cold fauna of southern France 

 chiefly to Harle (1871-1912). 



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Postglacial, Daun Stage, Aziliau-Tarclenoisian Cul- 

 ture. Of net, Istein . . . . . . 7 



Postglacial, Gscbnitz Stage. Hoblefels. Late Mag- 

 dalenian Culture 7 6 1 5 12 



Postglacial, Middle Magdalenian Culture. Upper 

 Rodent Strata 10 7 . . 6 S 



Postglacial, Early Magdalenian Culture. Biilil 



Stage, Sirgenstein 9 5 . . 5 3 



Postglacial, High Magdalenian Culture, Tbaingen. 15 14 4 13 21 



Postglacial. High Magdalenian Culture. SchAAei- 

 zersbild 7 2 2 6 8 



Postglacial. Solutrean Culture 6 3 .. 2 2 



Postglacial, Late Aurignacian Culture 10 4 1 1 .5 



Postglacial, Aurignacian Culture, Sirgenstein. 



Of net 7 1 1 1 3 



IV. Glacial Maximum, Lower Rodent Layer 7 4 .. 2 3 



IV. Glacial Stage, Mousterian Culture 8 5 12 4 



The fauna of Yoklinshofen includes a similar intermingling of timdra, 

 steppe, mountain, and meadow-forest types. The same is true of the 

 scattered deposits^' in Thuringia near Saalfeld, Gera, Jena, Leipzig, etc. 

 The loess fauna near Wlirzburg, Bayaria,^^ also includes twenty species 

 of mammals diyided into typically modern tundra forms of northern 

 Asia, typical modern steppe forms of central Asia and Siberia, together 

 with the four characteristic great mammals of the period, the mammoth, 

 the woolly rhinoceros, urus and bison. The arctic character of the fauna 

 of Chateauneuf-sur-Charente^^ in central France is yery conspicuous, 

 most of the species belonging either to the tundras or the steppes of 

 modern Europe. The bones of many young animals occur in this deposit, 

 which may be explained perhaps on the supposition that the animals fell 

 into the fissure while the opening was lightly coyered with snow, the 

 }'oung being the most frequently entrapped. Among the chief localities 

 where this grand Fourth Glacial and Postglacial fauna haye been dis- 

 covered are the following: 



^' PoHLiG^ H. : "Voiiaufige Mittheilungen iiber das I'listocsen, insbesondere Thurin- 

 gens." Sitzungsber. Niederrhein. Ges. Boim, pp. 2-15. Mar. 3, 1884. 



^ Nehrixg, a. : "tJbersicht iiber vierundzwanzig mitteleuropaische Quartar-Faunen," 

 Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges., pp. 468-509. Jahrg. 1880. 



^ BocLE, M., and Chauvet^ G. : "Sur I'existence d'une faune d'animaux arctiques- 

 dans la Charente a I'epoque quaternaire," C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 1188- 

 1190. 1899. 



