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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, Dauu Stage. Azilian-Tardenoisian Cul- 

 ture, Of'net. Isteiu . . . . . . 7 



Postglacial, Gscbnitz Stage, Hoblef'els. Late Mag- 

 dalenian Culture 7 6 1 5 1 2 



Postglacial, Middle Magdaleuiau Culture. Upper 

 Rodent Strata 10 7 . . 6 8 



Postglacial. Early Magdaleuiau Culture, Buhl 



Stage, Sirgeustein 9 5 



Postglacial, High Magdalenian Culture, Thaingen. 15 14 



Postglacial, High Magdaleuiau Culture. Schwei- 

 zersbild 7 2 



Postglacial, Solutreau Culture 6 3 



Postglacial. Late Aurignaciau Culture 10 4 



Postglacial, Aurignaciau Culture, Sirgeustein. 



Of net 7 1 



IV. Glacial Maximum, Lower Rodent Layer 7 4 



IV. Glacial Stage, Mousterian Culture 8 5 1 4 



The fauna of Voklinshofen includes a similar intermingling of tundra, 

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

 scattered deposits 8 T in Thuringia near Saalfeld, Gera, Jena, Leipzig, etc. 

 The loess fauna near Yviirzburg, Bavaria, 88 also includes twenty species 

 of mammals divided 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 89 in central France is very 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 covered with snow, the 

 young being the most frequently entrapped. Among the chief localities 

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

 covered are the following: 



87 Pohlig, H. : "Vorlaufige Mittheilungen iiber das Flistoca^n, insbesondere Thiirin- 

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



88 Nehring, A. : "tibersicht iiber vierundzwanzig mitteleuropaische Quartiir-Faunen," 

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



89 BoulBj M., and Chauyet, G. : "Sur l'existence d'une faune d'animaux arctiques 

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

 1190. 1899. 



